The effects of organizational variables on recall of prose were examined in 48 college-educated adults in three age groups (20 to 33 years, 41 to 55 years, and 58 to 79 years). It was hypothesized that if older adults suffered deficits in organizational processes, they would show lower quantities of prose recall, difficulties in following the…

IN A PREVIOUS PAPER (PRESENTED AT THE TWELFTH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS) THE AUTHOR POINTED OUT (1) THE RATIO OF SENTENCES WITH SUBJECTS TO SUBJECTLESS SENTENCES IN ENGLISH IS TWO TO ONE, WHEREAS IN JAPANESE IT IS ONE TO FOUR. (2) IF THE ENGLISH MAJOR SENTENCE TYPE CAN BE SAID TO CONSIST OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATE, THE JAPANESE MAJOR…

The Institute of Modern Languages'"Prevocational English" series (Levels I and II) is designed to teach basic conversational English while providing an introduction to technical skills. Each student's text has 20 lesson units of four parts each: Part I covers language used in everyday social situations; Part II introduces new structures and…

Twenty-five Philippine languages and dialects were studied to determine the manner in which words, clauses, sounds, and sentences group together to make up units larger than the sentence. Data obtained were analyzed according to tagmemic theory. The introduction to this volume (see also AL 002 032 and AL 002 033) gives a brief orientation to the…

In order to assess the effects of ambient contextual stimuli on retention, retro and proactive interference (RI and PI) seventeen experiments were conducted. In the retention experiments, the recall session was located in a context unlike the room used during original learning for one half of the subjects. In the inhibition experiments contextual…

A reconstructive approach to memory for connected discourse is contrasted with orientations that emphasize passive reproduction. Conditions under which reconstructive errors in recall should occur are specified. Most conventional experiments do not satisfy the conditions. In an experiment involving 360 college students, subjects were induced not…

Recognition memory for statements made during a luncheon discussion group was tested in an incidental learning paradigm after thirty hours. Statements high in interactional content yielded excellent memory for surface form and meaning; statements low in interactional content showed no memory for surface form and less memory for content. (CHK)

Explores some of the story concepts evident in children's story retellings and story writings. (FL)

Results suggest that: understanding can be defined in terms of information stored; and traditional learning concepts and measures are inappropriate for investigating the important effects involved in reading and auding'' prose. (Author/CB)

Methods used in the present study confirm that rejection latencies are a reliable index of certain strategies adopted in processing prose. (Author)

Compares the different means by which elements communicating new information (rhematic) and those conveying no new information (thematic) are ordered in sentences in German and English. (FB)

A discussion of how one perceive YsI form versus formlessness in discourse." (Author/RD)