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Is spoken duration a sufficient explanation of the word length effect?
Georgina Anne Tolan1, Gerald Tehan
1Faculty of Arts and Sciences, McAuley Campus, Australian Catholic University, PO Box 247, Everton Park, QLD, Australia 4053. a.tolan@mcauley.acu.edu.au
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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