A linguistic theory for the differential rates of learning of high and low m' CVCs (Noble, 1961) was tested and found tenable. The high and low m' CVCs of Badia, Rosenberg, and Langer (1965) were used because of their non-overlapping error distributions on a serial learning task. CVCs were judged for being: (1) lexical items with high graphemic, phonemic, semantic correspondences; (2) non-lexical items with high graphemic-phonemic correspondence; or (3) non-lexical items with low graphemic-phonemic correspondence. Scores for 81 of 82 Ss separated the high and low m' CVCs.
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