This study examined age-related changes in narrative speech of 79 adults aged 40-91 who told stories from their pictorial representations. Quantity, information content and cohesion of narratives were analysed using a detailed transcription and codification system. We carried out a LISREL analysis to study relationships between narrative…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between working memory and text coherence in Chinese text comprehension. Eighty-six participants completed an operation-character working memory span task to be classified into low-span and high-span readers and a reading task to measure the time to detect inconsistency as well as the…

The authors investigated the extent to which classroom pedagogical practices and disciplinary course focus contributed to understandings of social justice outcomes among 406 undergraduate students enrolled in five college courses. They found that gender, enrollment in Intergroup Dialogue, service-learning, Introduction to Sociology courses, and…

The emergence of the ability to maintain and develop a topic of conversation is examined. The production of a competently structured topic involves utterances that are both propositionally contingent on previous utterances and related to the global concern of the topic. Children under 2 years of age can only product utterances that are…

Composing is controlled by information feedback from prior behavior which serves to influence future behavior. This model posits movement toward a desired end product through a continual interchange of writing and examining and evaluating what has been written against internal standards. A study was conducted to determine the extent to which…

THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH ON THE RECALL OF ASSOCIATES EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE AND A DISCUSSION OF THE THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS THAT GUIDED THE RESEARCH. EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED NOT ONLY FOR ASSOCIATIVE FACILITATION IN THE RECALL OF KEY WORDS BUT ALSO FOR A FACILITATING EFFECT OF ASSOCIATION UPON THE RECALL OF CONTEXT…

THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF ASSOCIATIVE CONSTRAINTS BETWEEN WORDS UPON THE RECALL OF CONNECTED DISCOURSE ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE. THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT ASSOCIATIONS WILL AFFECT BOTH STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL. FOUR STUDIES ARE DISCUSSED IN WHICH WORDS VARYING IN FREE ASSOCIATION STRENGTH WERE EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE. LEARNING WAS…

Narratives about personal experiences were elicited from 33 kindergarten children in a suburb of Zurich. The narratives were analyzed for the development of the use of the particle "ebe" from a conversational context (where the use of the particle was already mastered) to an appropriate narrative context (in which the particle, as…

In understanding comprehension as the active processing of reading material, and in assuming that certain key content is stored in the memory, then mnemonic cues could be one important means of recalling this stored information. Since associative words apparently have high mnemonic cue value, they have been the subject of numerous investigations.…

The measurement of interlingual distance (how far removed one language is from another) is both possible and feasible; and it can be computed in different ways. The difference between the codes of the two languages can be measured by one technique and the differences in samples of discourse by another. The samples may be measured as static…

The notions of recursiveness and deletion are discussed in the context of Chomsky's presentations of transformational grammar in "Syntactic Structures" and in the later work, "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." After consideration of word-recursion, coordinate-clause recursion, and subordinate-clause recursion, extensions to…

Part of a Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota; results were presented in part at the 81st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 1971. (DD)

Study was designed to extend previous studies on note taking and listening by investigating the effects of thematic relatedness and of opportunity for consolidation on the learner's recall. (Authors)

Field work for this study was done under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (RS)