Rhymers Are Readers: The Importance of Nursery Rhymes

WHY ARE RHYMES EASY TO LEARN?1 GORDON H. BOWER 2 AND LAURA S. BOLTON Stanford University The question was why a list of rhyming paired associates is learned faster than a list of unrelated pairs. It is proposed that the rhyming relation restricts the range of response alternatives to the stimulus, practically converting recall into a ... ................
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