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Farrell, Meagan T.; Abrams, Lise – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Syllable frequency has been shown to facilitate production in some languages but has yielded inconsistent results in English and has never been examined in older adults. Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states represent a unique type of production failure where the phonology of a word is unable to be retrieved, suggesting that the frequency of phonological…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Barriers, Phonology, Syllables

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