Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to test predictions issued from Clark and Haviland's (Explaining Linguistic Phenomenon, 1974) formalization of what people do when integrating information. The subjects were presented with a list of 28 simple declarative sentences issued from a set of seven complex ideas, and then asked to reconstruct the complete ideas. The simple sentences were presented twice, either in an unmixed or an orderly mixed, or a randomly mixed order, with a test after each presentation. Results fully support the predictions based on the view of a recoding strategy as formalized by Clark and Haviland; in general, the easier it is for the subjects to locate the intended antecedents for each simple idea, the better is the integration of the total propositional content of the interrelated sentences. Present findings further indicate that even when individual sentence integrity is preserved, the importance of overall knowledge structures in storing meaningful arrays of information is still strongly apparent.
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