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Publication details [#36440]

McCabe, Allyssa and Carole Peterson. 1990. What makes a narrative memorable? Applied Psycholinguistics 11 (1) : 73–82.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | memory | narrative

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0142-7164

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study suggests that both story grammar and highpoint analysis are associated with a high frequency of recall of personal narratives by children and that sensational content will be more frequently recalled than nonsensational content.