TY - JOUR
T1 - Production frequency and the verification of quantified statements
AU - Glass, Arnold L.
AU - Holyoak, Keith J.
AU - O'Dell, Carla
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1 This paper has greatly benefited from the extensive to which a subject presented with an All- suggestions of our colleagues Gordon H. Bower, statement is assumed to verify first the corre- Herbert H. Clark, Robert J. Sternberg, and especially sponding (implicit) Some-statement; only if Edward E. Smith. While this study was conducted A. the Some-statement is confirmed does he Glass held an N.S.F. graduate fellowship and K. proceed to check the All-statement directly. Holyoak held a Stanford University fellowship. This It seems possible, however, that the differ- research was supported by Grant MN13850-06 from the National Institute of Mental Health to our advisor, ences in RT between All-and Some-statements Gordon H. Bower. obtained in Meyer's study were an artifact of 2 Now at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. his particular experimental design. He pre-All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. Copyright © 1974 by Academic Press, Inc. 237
PY - 1974/6
Y1 - 1974/6
N2 - In Experiment I subjects were required to generate nouns and adjectives which formed true completions of sentences of the form (Quantifier) S are. The quantifiers used were All, Many, Some, Few, and No. Three further experiments examined the effect of production frequency of the predicate on verification RT for quantified statements. True sentences with high-frequency category (Experiment II) or property (Experiments III and IV) predicates were verified more quickly than those with low-frequency predicates when the quantifier was All, Many, Some, or Few; this difference reversed for No-statements. False RT was fastest in all cases when the false sentence was semantically anomalous; but in Experiment IV, when degree of relatedness of subject and predicate words was varied within false but meaningful sentences, statements with high-related predicates were rejected more quickly. In general, the effect of semantic relatedness reversed for negative (Few and No) as opposed to positive quantifiers. An ordered attribute-search model was proposed to account for subjects' performance during both predicate production and sentence verification.
AB - In Experiment I subjects were required to generate nouns and adjectives which formed true completions of sentences of the form (Quantifier) S are. The quantifiers used were All, Many, Some, Few, and No. Three further experiments examined the effect of production frequency of the predicate on verification RT for quantified statements. True sentences with high-frequency category (Experiment II) or property (Experiments III and IV) predicates were verified more quickly than those with low-frequency predicates when the quantifier was All, Many, Some, or Few; this difference reversed for No-statements. False RT was fastest in all cases when the false sentence was semantically anomalous; but in Experiment IV, when degree of relatedness of subject and predicate words was varied within false but meaningful sentences, statements with high-related predicates were rejected more quickly. In general, the effect of semantic relatedness reversed for negative (Few and No) as opposed to positive quantifiers. An ordered attribute-search model was proposed to account for subjects' performance during both predicate production and sentence verification.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-5371(74)80061-7
DO - 10.1016/S0022-5371(74)80061-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001662770
SN - 0022-5371
VL - 13
SP - 237
EP - 254
JO - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
JF - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
IS - 3
ER -