The importance of vowel diacritics for the temporary retention of high and low frequency Hebrew words of varying syllabic length.
This study investigates the importance of vowel diacritics for the retention of Hebrew word lists, with word lists being manipulated along the dimension of word frequency and syllabic length. Eighty university students participated in the study. Half of the participants (40) were tested with the wor...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 516 - 527 |
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