To determine what effect change in letter position has on the tendency of beginning readers to utilize the outer letters of trigrams more often than medial ones, first graders were tested on 40 matching-to-sample discriminations. Alternatives with the first 2 letters or last 2 letters reversed were chosen more often than those with the positions of the first and last letters reversed.
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