Open AccessA LATENCY ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES UNDERLYING CHILDREN'S RECALL OF SENTENCES 1
Author(s) -
Freedle Roy,
Hall William S.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1973.tb00205.x
Subject(s) - noun , recall , verb , natural language processing , sentence , object (grammar) , linguistics , computer science , sequence (biology) , task (project management) , constraint (computer aided design) , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics , cognitive psychology , philosophy , geometry , management , biology , economics , genetics
It has been found that an information‐processing analysis of latencies collected in an immediate sentence recall task using children with median age 4 yr 4 mo favors a serial processing mechanism which consists of three major parts: the detection of a clausal boundary, the assessment of whether or not the observed noun‐verb‐noun structure satisfies a unique semantic constraint (in terms of the meaningfulness of interchanging its two clausal nouns), and the assessment of whether the observed surface sequence satisfies a canonical order of subject‐verb‐object.