Reading rate and retention as a function of the number of propositions in the base structure of sentences

The abstraction of linguistic ideas

John D. Bransford, Jeffery J. Franks · Cognitive Psychology · 1971 · 1.3K citations

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Recognition memory for syntactic and semantic aspects of connected discourse

Jacqueline Sachs · Perception & Psychophysics · 1967 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Recall of prose as a function of the structural importance of the linguistic units

Ronald E. Johnson · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 1970 · 386 citations

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Sentence Structure and the Reading Process

Jane W. Torrey, I. M. Schlesinger · The American Journal of Psychology · 1970 · 68 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Literacy Education +14

Lexical density and phrase structure depth as variables in sentence retention

Charles A. Perfetti · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 1969 · 51 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Syntax +13