Word Recall is Affected by Surrounding Metrical Context.

ABSTRACT: It has been claimed that English has a metrical structure, or rhythm, in which stressed and unstressed syllables alternate. In previous research regular, alternating patterns have been shown to facilitate online language comprehension. Expanding these findings to downstream processing would lead to the prediction that metrical regularity enhances memory. Research from the memory literature, however, indicates that regular patterns are less salient and therefore less well remembered, and also that strings of similar sounds are harder to remember. This work suggests that, like lists of words with similar sounds, lists of words with similar metrical patterns are less accurately remembered than comparable metrically irregular patterns. The present study tests these conflicting predictio

SUBMITTER: Kimball AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7531771 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature