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ERIC Number: ED376192
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 28
Abstractor: N/A
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ISSN: ISSN-0281-9864
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An Experimental Approach to the Functional Analysis of Text Building Behaviour. Part I. The Verbal Flow. No. 47.
Bierschenk, Bernhard
This presentation is based on a method for analyzing the verbal flow in text-building behavior. The method is called Perspective Text Analysis (PTA). It locates and makes use of the discontinuities in produced text. Its task is to characterize the mechanism that governs language production and to foster an understanding of the actual processes of movement in language. The study of this phenomenon is founded on the experimental conditions provided by the famous Visual Cliff. It is assumed that informational invariants are established through the production of experimental text. Through the behavioral dynamics produced by four experimental subjects, the metrical structure of the coordinates of a language space has been established. Furthermore, it is shown that kinetic properties, like velocity and direction, of a verbal flow can be measured and represented by means of a simple regression analysis. Its slope coefficient gives expression to the degree of deviation in the curvature of the measured space. The results of the regression analysis are represented in a log-by-log plot. This plot shows that the verbal flows of the studied systems are characterized by highly similar kinetic properties. An appendix highly similar flow-field as well as translations in English, French, and German. (Contains 26 references, 3 figures, and 3 tables.) (Author/SLD)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Lund Univ. (Sweden). Cognitive Science Research.
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