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Immediate recall of lists of 3-syllable nouns and adjectives is as good as that reported for monosyllabic words. Lists of nominalizations and adjectivalizations of comparable frequency of occurrence to the nouns and adjectives are, by comparison, poorly retained. It is suggested that nominalizations and adjectivalizations behave as two-chunk items when they are stored in immediate memory.
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1. The experiment was executed by the first author in partial requirement for the B. A. degree in the University of Wales.
2. The second author wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the Medical Research Council.
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Briem, J., Loewenthal, K. Immediate recall of nominalizations and adjectivalizations. Psychon Sci 11, 209 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327663
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