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Twenty Ss were presented with two lists of 14 subject nominalizations for written free recall, and later with one list for an association task. These items, although superficially similar, differ in complexity of deep structure. A significant difference in recall was found in favor of the items with the simpler deep structure. No difference was observed in number of associations to the different items. The results provide additional support for the notion that the underlying structure of a sentence adequately serves as a conceptualization of the memory representation of that sentence.
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1. This study was supported in part by National Science Foundation, Grant GB 7614 to the first author.
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Rohrman, N.L., Polzella, D.J. Recall of subject nominalizations. Psychon Sci 12, 376 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331360
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