Abstract
In the present study, the relation of story grammars to perceived story structure is investigated. A method is offered for arriving at an empirical description of perceived story structure. People are asked to sort the sentences of simple stories into groups that seem to go together naturally in the structure of the story. A pooled measure of structural relatedness among story propositions is thus derived. Hierarchical clustering procedures (Johnson, 1967) are used to generate subjective story structures for stories adapted from Mandler and Johnson (1977) and Glenn (1978), the two comparison grammars chosen for the present study. Results indicate generally good agreement between the empirical and theoretical structural descriptions. In several instances, however, the empirical structures depart in meaningful ways from the structural descriptions generated by the grammars. Major individual differences in perceived structure also arise. In a second experiment, this procedure is successfully extended to text...
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