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Is spoken duration a sufficient explanation of the word length effect?
Tehan, Gerald Tolan, Anne
Tehan, Gerald
Tolan, Anne
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Abstract
The word length effect is one of the cornerstones of trace decay plus rehearsal models (TDR) of memory. Words of long spoken duration take longer to rehearse than words of short spoken duration and as such suffer more decay and are thus less well recalled. The current experiment manipulates both syllable length and spoken duration within words of fixed syllable length in an aim to test the assumptions of the TDR model. Our procedures produced robust effects of both syllable length and spoken duration in four measures of the time it takes to pronounce the different types of words. Serial recall for the same materials produced robust syllable effects, but no duration effects.
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Date
2005
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Journal article
Journal
Memory
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Volume
13
Issue
April
Page Range
372-379
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Published as green open access
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Controlled