Some effects of titles on building and recalling text structures

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ID11273087
AuthorsMichael Bock (0000-0001-9720-3506, Ruhr University Bochum, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume3
Issue4
Pages301-311
Publication date1980-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01638538009544494
OpenAlexW2028891249
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

Could different titles cause different structures to be set up for the very same text material? To pursue this question, we performed an experiment requiring a sorting task. Subjects were given 18 sentences from a text, each one printed on a separate card, and were asked to put them in order. Then they were asked to reproduce the sentences. The order in which sentences were placed and reproduced should reveal the “subjective” structure of the text. The sentences which fit a given title were placed and reproduced earlier in the sequence than those which didn't fit. The goodness of fit was measured here by the shared arguments. The goodness of fit also influenced sentence recall. These results are compatible with Haviland and Clark (1974) and Kintsch (1974), but not with Rumelhart's (1975) story grammar

Cognitive psychology · Goodness of fit · Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Recall · Sentence · Sequence (biology · Set (abstract data type · Task (project management · Word order · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence

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