D. Caplan et Gs. Waters, ARTICULATORY LENGTH AND PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY IN SPAN TASKS - A REPLY, The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology, 47(4), 1994, pp. 1055-1062
We report a partial replication of previous results by Caplan, Rochon,
and Waters (1992), using methods that address objections raised by Ba
ddeley and Andrade (this issue) and that improve on several techniques
used by them. The results cast doubts on the role of articulation in
determining the word length effect in span, and hence on the role of a
rticulation in rehearsal.