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Rubin, David C. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Four stories were divided into function word units; a dozen variables were all found to be statistically significant predictors of recall. For the more structured stories, subjects' intuitions, gist, and redundancy were the best predictors; for the less structured stories, serial position and repetition were best. (EJS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Function Words, Language Processing, Language Research
