ROSENBERG, SHELDON; JARVELLA, ROBERT J.; and CROSS, MICHAEL. Semantic Integration, Age, and the Recall of Sentences. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 1959-1966. Groups of kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade Ss were exposed to lists of 4 semantically well-integrated (SWI) or semantically poorly integrated (SPI) sentences for 4 trials in an immediate-recall task. The sentences were constructed from college norms of associative dependencies in simple declarative sentences considered to be a reflection of mature semantic knowledge. The hypothesis being evaluated was that the effect of semantic integration would increase with age. Recall performance increased strikingly with age, but the effect of semantic integration, although significant, was limited to the first 2 trials. More important, however, was the observation that the effect of semantic integration did not interact with age. There was some evidence that SWI sentences were recalled as a whole to a greater extent than SPI sentences, but in general the type of sentence used here was found to be a particularly easy one to process.