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Letter-like characters from continua ranging between t and l d and l, or i and l were factorially embedded in word frames either having or not having an l in a position adjacent to the variable character. In the former but not in the latter case, the letter continuum manipulation varied the degree of presence of doubled-letter parallelism as well as the degree to which the character was one letter rather than the alternative. Letter-identification rating data suggested that the parallelism property played a minor part in the process of identifying the words. This result, as well as the more general issues associated with it, are examined within the framework of a fuzzy propositional model of pattern identification.
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This research was supported by NSF Grants BNS80-14316 and BNS83-10870.
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Oden, G.C., Rueckl, J.G. Is the difference between gill and girl more than a letter?. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 24, 7–10 (1986). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330488
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