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The permutational test of grammaticality employs the notion of a kernel sentence, defined as subject-verb-object-qualifier (SVOQ). The permutational test of grammaticality relies strongly on the presuppositions underlying generative grammar. The protocols were examined to look for judges who had failed to mark any of the SVOQ sentences. The statistical analysis of the results was based on the scores of the remaining 20 judges. With respect to permutations with a high index of disruption, the experiment was not successful in that factors forcing grammatical judgments out of line with predictions made from the index of disruption were not discovered.

Investigates the effect of surface structure complexity, transformational sentence type and sentence length on a sentence imitation task with pre-school children. Similarity of sentence imitation and sentence comprehension; Interaction between Yngve depth and transformational sentence type; Significance of transformation grammar.

Focuses on the review of previously developed psycholinguistic notions of syntactic complexity involving depth, degree of nesting and node/terminal node ratio. Presentation of a system based on transformational generative grammar; Use of quantitative unit measurement; Problems germane to theoretical foundations and practical applications of the system.

Describes the syntactical system as used by two groups of children. Use of sentence transformations; Utilization of auxiliary verb; Maturity in linguistic competence.

Focuses on the effect of question format at time of recall test. Formulation of grammatical rules for questions; Transformation component of the grammar; Basis for expecting a comparable effect for positive questions.

The article presents a study which focuses on the role of hesitation phenomena in the communication process and typewriting. The study also discusses relationship between hesitation phenomena and different aspects of encoding behavior. There are certain hesitation types and syntactic considerations which have been included in the study. They are comparative assessments of syntactic constraint, a computer parsing programme, and stochastic analysis of phrase structures. Verbatim transcripts of the spoken messages were made as a part of the study.

Memory for the "content" or gist of a sentence or passage is better than verbatim memory; indeed ordinarily, outside the laboratory, only the former is called for. Evidence consistent with the preceding very obvious observation may be found in Welborn and English. There is some recent work on memory for simple sentences which suggests one possible way in which these might be stored and recalled. It has been suggested that given a simple sentence a listener may factor it into its kernel form, plus some kind of a tag or signal indicating the grammatical transformations undergone by the kernel.