Some consequences of violating selection restrictions in concrete and abstract sentences.

Verbal Context and the Recall of Meaningful Material

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How to make a language user.

Allan M. Collins, M. Ross Quillian · 1972 · 202 citations

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A sketch of a cognitive approach to comprehension: Some thoughts about understanding what it means to comprehend.

John D. Bransford, Nancy S. McCarrell · 1974 · 199 citations

Education, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology +11

The role of semantic and syntactic constraints in the memorization of English sentences

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Concurrent effects of contextual constraint and word frequency on immediate recall and learning of verbal material.

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Social Sciences, Educational Psychology, Psychology +16