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An 18-word list was constructed so that each word belonged to both a semantically related category and an acoustically related category. The list was presented, either orally or visually, in a multitrial free-recall task. The results from 40 Ss showed that the organization of recall was dominated by the acoustic properties of the words.
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This research was supported in part by a Miami University faculty research grant to the second author. The paper is sponsored by John C. Jahnke, who takes full editorial responsibility for its contents.
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Long, D., Allen, G.A. Relative effects of acoustic and semantic relatedness on clustering in free recall. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 1, 316–318 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334356
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334356