This investigation utilizing seventy-two fourth graders as subjects was designed to study the relationships of selected physical and semantic characteristics of WISC vocabulary words to error rate in the pronunciation of those words in isolation. It was found that only meaning difficulty entered into a stepwise multiple correlation with error rate in pronunciation.
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