Utterances in vacuo and in Contexts: An Experimental and Theoretical Exploration of Some Interrelationships between What Is Heard and What Is Seen or Imagined.

Blakar, Rolv Mikkel; Rommetveit, Ragnar

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ERIC Number: EJ131142

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Publication Date: 1975

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Utterances in vacuo and in Contexts: An Experimental and Theoretical Exploration of Some Interrelationships between What Is Heard and What Is Seen or Imagined

Blakar, Rolv Mikkel; Rommetveit, Ragnar

Linguistics, 153, 5-32, Jun 1 75

Criticizes psycholinguistic experiments where messages are presented in vacuo and where the linguist has no intention of conveying a message to the subject, who fills in his own contextual frame. When utterances were presented with pictures, they were remembered more accurately than when they were repeated ten times. (SCC)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics, Psychological Studies, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology), Verbal Communication, Visualization

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