Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to find out the optimal conditions for remembering surface form of sentence. In Experiment I, the subjects were required to process a list of sentences under lexical, syntactic, or semantic orienting task condition. The results indicated that recognition of syntactic aspects of sentences under syntactic processing condition was superior to other conditions. In Experiment II, further analysis was carried out to evaluate the effect of syntactic processing upon recognition of word order of sentence. The results indicated that the syntactic processing was facilitated when the following sentence of the same syntactic structure was processed. These results were discussed in terms of the relation between processing activity and sorts of information acquired.
