The abstraction of linguistic ideas in “meaningless” sentences
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 2 (4) , 737-741
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03198149
Abstract
It was proposed that the Bransford and Franks linear effect is unrelated to semantic processes and will, therefore, occur even when "meaningless" sentences (i.e., sentences containing nonsense instead of meaningful content words) are employed. Within the Bransford and Franks format, Ss were given either the meaningless sentences or control sentences. Results showed a significant linear effect for the meaningless sentences. Furthermore, although the slope of the effect for meaningless sentences was flatter than that of the control, other data ruled out a semantic integration explanation based on the availability of semantic information contained in sentence structure. A simple guessing strategy hypothesis was offered to account for the linear effect.Keywords
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