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Tong, Yunxia; Francis, Alexander L.; Gandour, Jackson T. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
The aim of this study was to examine processing interactions between segmental (consonant, vowel) and suprasegmental (tone) dimensions of Mandarin Chinese. Using a speeded classification paradigm, processing interactions were examined between each pair of dimensions. Listeners were asked to attend to one dimension while ignoring the variation…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Vowels, Word Recognition, Classification
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Tehan, Gerald; Tolan, Georgina Anne – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
The word length effect has been a central feature of theorising about immediate memory. The notion that short-term memory traces rapidly decay unless refreshed by rehearsal is based primarily upon the finding that serial recall for short words is better than that for long words. The decay account of the word length effect has come under pressure…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Serial Ordering, Recall (Psychology), Vocabulary