Verb Semantic Structures in Memory for Sentences [electronic resource] : Evidence for Componential Representation. Technical Report No. 151 / Dedre Gentner.

Two hypotheses were tested in three experiments concerned with the componential storage of meaning. The complexity hypothesis predicted that a verb with many subpredicates would lead to poor memory strength between the surrounding nouns. The connectivity hypothesis predicted that verbs with many sub...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Gentner, Dedre
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1979.
Subjects:	Memory. Psycholinguistics. Reading Comprehension. Reading Processes. Reading Research. Recall (Psychology) Retention (Psychology) Sentence Structure. Structural Analysis. Verbs.