抄録
This experiment was designed to examine the minimal redundancy hypothesis proposed by Olson, end further to decide the limit of the hypothesis. The experiment was run in a two-person communication situation. The task was for a sender of message to describe the referent so that the receiver could select it among figures in a stimulus-set. The results were: (1) Overall redundancy was considerably low. (2) Subsidiary information decreased the redundancy of message. (3) The less was the number of figures in a set, the less was the redundancy of message. These results were interpreted as evidence that suggests the necessity of cognitive factors in order to establish the generality of Olson's hypothesis.
