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Meaning specificity in sentence processing
Author(s) -
Tzeng Ovid J. L.,
Alva Isabel C.,
Lee Alfred T.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1979.tb02150.x
Subject(s) - sentence , psychology , meaning (existential) , encoding (memory) , context (archaeology) , atomic sentence , interpretation (philosophy) , sentence processing , linguistics , natural language processing , inverted sentence , semantics (computer science) , cognitive psychology , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , biology , programming language , psychotherapist
Two experiments were conducted to test the principle of encoding specificity in sentence recognition when the target sentence was embedded in a meaningful discourse. The results indicate that change in meaning context resulted in significantly less recognition of the target sentences while change in sentence form and the target‐test interval had no significant effects. The findings were discussed within the framework of a semantic interpretation of the encoding specificity principle.