The hypothesis was that raters familiar with more than one phonological system would experience less effort in vocalizing Greenberg and Jenkins' (1964) List 1 CCVCs that had been scaled for language distance than would raters familiar with sounds of only one language. Members of bi- or multilingual homes (N = 19) rated the effort of vocalizing or subvocalizing the CCVCs. These ratings were compared with those by persons from predominantly monolingual homes (N = 25). The hypothesis remains tenable (p < .01). The correlation of the two sets of mean scale values was .98.
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