Short-term memory for nonwords, like real words, may be supported both by long-term knowledge about the sound structures of familiar words in the language and the phonological loop component of working memory. It cannot therefore be safely assumed that employing nonwords in memory experiments will guarantee dependence only on the phonological loop.
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