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Recognition memory of preschool children for pictures and words
Preshool children’s memory of words and pictures was examined using a recognition-memory task. The results indicated that pictures were better...
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High and low frequency nouns as sources of hesitation in the production of speech
In an investigation of the influence of lexical frequency upon preliminary hesitation (latency) in single-word stimulus presentations, 20 male...
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The effects of practice upon rehearsal in short-term memory
Ss were allowed to pace their acquisition of nine items in a memory task, and the distribution of their rehearsal was measured. Peak rehearsal pauses...
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Transition probabilities and the incidence of filled pauses
Maclay & Osgood’s theory about filled pauses (FPs) is described and evidence relevant to it summarized. Maclay & Osgood’s own evidence for their...
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Syntactic locus as a determinant of judged pause duration
This study sought to determine if the syntactic location of a speech pause might affect its apparent duration. Ss listened to a continuous discourse,...
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The perception of hesitation in spontaneous speech
The issue in this paper was whether attending to acoustic elements and to message elements in a speech signal were compatible operations. In four...
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Autotelic Responsive Environments and Exceptional Children
In every society there are those who fail to learn the things which are held to be essential for carrying out the role of a competent adult, or who...