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Carpenter, Patricia A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
An experiment is reported which permitted the separate examination of sentence comprehension processes and subsequent sentence memory processes. The similarity between the results of comprehension and recall was discussed in terms of a retrieval process that may be similar in both tasks. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Pezdek, Kathy; Royer, James M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
A study was made to assess the effect of comprehension on the recognition of meaning and wording changes with concrete and abstract sentences. The results of the experiment were discussed in light of recent models which propose different storage mechanisms for concrete and abstract sentences. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Altenberg, Evelyn P.; Cairns, Helen Smith – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1983
A study of linguistic judgment tasks and lexical decision tasks among English-German bilinguals supports the hypotheses that bilinguals have knowledge of two sets of phonotactic constraints, and that both sets of constraints are simultaneously available to the individual during language processing. (MSE)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English, German
Paivio, Allan – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported by grants from the National Research Council of Canada and from the University of Western Ontario Research Fund. (DS)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction