Abstract
Two experiments tested cued recall of sentences in either the present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, or future perfect tenses. In Experiment I, 45% of the sentences were recalled with shifts in the verb tense, thus partially replicating the results of Clark and Stafford (1969) . However, the shifts appeared to be due to lack of temporal context (time deixis) rather than loss of marked semantic features. In Experiment II temporal adverbs were added to half of the sentences in order to provide a partial temporal framework. Tenseshifting was markedly reduced in sentences with temporal adverbs, thus supporting a memory-for-ideas theory with the specific condition that verb tenses are relatively meaningless without a temporal decitic context.
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