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Hulme, Charles – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Investigates the effects of acoustic similarity on memory span in 112 children four to 10 years of age. Acoustic similarity had progressively more effect on recall with increasing age. Implications for current theories of short-term memory and its development and for the use of acoustic similarity as an indicator of speech coding are discussed.…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Acoustics, Children, Developmental Stages