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Published: November 12, 2006
The
word length effect is a phenomenon that involves a human being's capacity to recall short
words better than long words. Words that take less time to pronounce, therefore, are more easily remembered. There are two well-developed explanations of the word length effect. These are Baddeley's working memory
model (WMM) and Nairne's feature model. This paper compares the predictions of each view concerning interactions between word length and
irrelevant speech.
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