Koutstaal and Smith's (1972) linguistic theory for the differential rates of learning of alphabetic CVCs was tested on the paired-associate learning of phonemic CCVCs. These were selected from Greenberg and Jenkins' (1964) lists to represent 0, 1, 2, or 3 violations of phonological rules. A monotonic function was predicted and obtained for the paired-associate learning of the phonemic CCVCs of the four categories.
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