Verbatim and Propositional Representation of Sentences in Immediate and Long-Term Memory.

Two experiments are reported to distinguish between the representation of sentences in immediate versus longer-term memory. In Experiment I subjects studied active or passive sentences embedded in paragraph context and in Experiment II they studied isolated sentences. Their task was to immediately or later verify the truth of test sentences that were based on the study sentences. The verification latencies indicate there are two modes of sentence representation in memory. Immediately the representation is a verbatim image of the sentence but at delays there are both verbatim images and propositional representations. Evidence is offered that these propositional representations are similar to the active-like deep structure of Chomsky (1965) .

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