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Rohrman (1968) presented data which purported to show that variations in deep structure could predict the recall of English nominalizations that had identical surface structures. Evidence is presented which suggests that semantic vividness was confounded with Rohrman’s experimental manipulations, and it is argued that his results can be explained solely in terms of vividness.
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The author is grateful to Theodore K. Phelps and Rosemary Wearing for assistance in the collection and analysis of the data and to Rosemary Wearing for criticism of an earlier draft of this paper.
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Wearing, A.J. Vividness in the recall of English nominalizations. Psychon Sci 22, 121–122 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332526
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