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Journal of Verbal Learning… | 1 |
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Cairns, Helen S. | 1 |
Kamerman, Joan | 1 |
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Cairns, Helen S.; Kamerman, Joan – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Two psycholinguistic processes are examined in a phoneme monitoring experiment and a sentence completion experiment. Tests were conducted with matched materials on subjects drawn from one population. With ambiguous lexical items all meanings are retrieved, but following a decision stage only one is transferred to memory. (SC)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Language Tests, Phonemes