Transformational Complexity and Short Term Recall
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 11 (2) , 120-128
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383096801100205
Abstract
Sentences of different syntactic complexity, followed by a list of eight unrelated words were presented to subjects auditorily. Recall of the sentence and the succeeding words was required. An assessment of the difficulty of processing the types of sentence was made by varying measures. No relationship between performance and transformational complexity was obtained, but qualifiers were a clear source of difficulty under any syntactic condition. A model of encoding is proposed based on the obtained results.Keywords
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