The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Psychology Faculty Scholarship Psychology 1985 Sticking to Syntax: The Reflection of Story Grammar in Children's and Adult's Recall of Radio and Television Shows Donald S. Hayes University of Maine - Main,
[email protected] Suzanne B. Kelly Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/psy_facpub Part of the Psychology Commons Repository Citation Hayes, Donald S. and Kelly, Suzanne B., "Sticking to Syntax: The Reflection of Story Grammar in Children's and Adult's Recall of Radio and Television Shows" (1985). Psychology Faculty Scholarship. 12. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/psy_facpub/12 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Psychology Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Vol. 31, No.4 Sticking to Syntax: The Reflection of Story Grammar in Children's and Adults' Recall of Radio and Television Shows Donald S. Hayes and Suzanne B. Kelly University of Maine Two studies were cond ucted to determine how well Mandler's (1983) story grammar, which was generated for oral or written discourse, predicts recall of televised stories. The studies also examined (a) whether the grammar could ac count for recall of both narrative and non-narrative stories, and (b) whether de velopmental differences exist in nodal recall for either television or radio. In Ex periment 1, preschoolers viewed a televised story from "Sesame Street" that was non-narrative in nature.