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College students attempted verbatim recall or recognition of sentences containing embedded or nonembedded relative clauses. Embedded sentences were more difficult than nonembedded in verbatim recall, but the sentence types were equally difficult in the recognition task, implying that the grammatical relations and meaning of both sentence types are recovered and entered into memory.
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The author wishes to thank Dale Brinkman, John Koslick, and Douglas Finch for their assistance in this series of studies. This paper is sponsored by George E. Briggs, who takes full editorial responsibility for its contents.
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Baird, R. Recall of embedded sentences: Perceptual or performance deficit?. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 3, 36–38 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333385
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333385