THE EFFECTS OF GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE UPON VERBAL ENCODING HABITS,
Abstract
Despite extensive research on human encoding of information, relatively little attention has been given to one of the most pervasive characteris tics of human communication, namely, grammatical structure. An experiment was conducted to com pare verbal encoding behavior under two condi tions: natural language format and a format in which grammatical structure was relaxed. In formation from news reports had to be selected and encoded in one or the other format. Humans experienced moderate difficulty, initially, in encoding information in the modified format and conveyed no more information than with natural language format. However, the information den sity of the modified format was higher. As an information source to answer information re quests, the modified format was superior. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 21, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0410834
Entities
People
- And Emory H. Holmes
- John D. Ford
Organizations
- System Development Corporation