Does neighborhood size really cause the word length effect?
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Does length or neighborhood size cause the word length effect?
Jalbert, Neath, Bireta, and Surprenant (2011) suggested that past demonstrations of the word length effect, the finding that words with fewer syllables are recalled better than words with more syllables, included a confound: The short words had more orthographic neighbors than the long words. The experiments reported here test two predictions that would follow if neighborhood size is a more imp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-017-0761-9