Serial position effects in nonword repetition

Prahlad Gupta; John Lipinski; Brandon Abbs; Po-Han Lin

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2004.12.002

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Serial position effects in nonword repetition

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Serial position effects in nonword repetition

Prahlad Gupta, John Lipinski, Brandon Abbs and Po-Han Lin

Journal of memory and language, Vol.53(1), pp.141-162

2005

DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.12.002

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Abstract

A growing body of research has emphasized the linkage between performance in immediate serial recall of lists, nonword repetition, and word learning. Recently, it has been reported that primacy and recency effects are obtained in repetition of individual syllables within nonwords (Gupta, in press). Five experiments examined whether such within-nonword primacy and recency effects are attributable to common sequencing mechanisms that are shared with immediate list recall. Experiments 1 and 2 indicated that the primacy and recency effects are not simply due to greater morphological salience at the beginnings/endings of nonwords, and that the serial position effects generalize to different stimuli and across a variety of stimulus lengths. Experiment 3 indicated that the primacy and recency effects are similar to those obtained in list recall. Experiments 4 and 5 examined alternative hypotheses for the observed serial position effects, concluding that the alternative hypotheses fail to account for the obtained pattern of results. These results provide support for the common sequencing mechanisms hypothesis. The implications of these results are discussed in terms of the relationship between list recall and nonword repetition, and in terms of broader issues in word learning.

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Title: Subtitle: Serial position effects in nonword repetition
Creators: Prahlad Gupta - Department of Psychology , University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
John Lipinski - Department of Psychology , University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Brandon Abbs - Department of Psychology , University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Po-Han Lin - Department of Psychology , University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of memory and language, Vol.53(1), pp.141-162
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.12.002
ISSN: 0749-596X
eISSN: 1096-0821
Language: English
Date published: 2005
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Record Identifier: 9984213270702771

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