A Latency Analysis of Strategies Underlying Children's Recall of Sentences NICHD
- Author(s):
- Freedle, Roy O.; Hall, William S.
- Publication Year:
- 1973
- Report Number:
- RB-73-09
- Source:
- ETS Research Bulletin
- Document Type:
- Report
- Subject/Key Words:
- National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Memory, Preschool Children, Recall (Psychology), Sentence Structure
Abstract
It has been found that an information-processing analysis of latencies collected in an immediate sentence recall task using children with median age 4 years 4 months favors a serial processing mechanism. This mechanism consists of three major parts: (1) The detection of a clausal boundary; (2) the assesssment of whether or not the observed nounverb-no structure satisfies a unique semantic constraint (in terms of the meaningfulness of interchanging its two clausal nouns); and (3) the assessment of whether the observed surface sequence satisfies a canonical order of subject-verb-object. (Author/DP) (36pp.)
Read More
- Request Copy (specify title and report number, if any)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2333-8504.1973.tb00205.x