Effort ratings for subvocalizing the 24 CCVCs of Greenberg and Jenkins' (1964) List 1 were obtained from native speakers of Bantu, Chinese, Dutch, English, Flemish, Spanish, and Swedish. Predictions were that the effort ratings would intercorrelate significantly as well as correlate significantly with S values of the CCVCs. Correlations ranged from .64 to .89 with a median of .81. The predictions proved to be tenable on the basis of the data.
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