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letter string

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letter string

Sequence of letters forming a phoneme or a morpheme. A letter string can be present in different words, where it represents similar or differing sounds, for example caught, daughter, laughter.

A high proportion of common English words are not spelled as they are sounded. Many of these contain common letter strings: colour, favourite, neighbour; fright, night, right. Other common letter strings are ess, each, ound, ion, and ount.



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As in many studies of implicit memory, participants usually produced an already viewed word when presented with a letter string from that word (SN: 11/17/90, p.
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The researchers first charted blood-flow surges sparked by general visual processing and letter recognition during tests in which volunteers judged whether two sets of letter strings displayed the same pattern of upper- and lowercase letters.
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One region, toward the front of the brain, responded comparably to all types of letter strings but not to illustrations or visual patterns.
Brain study finds possible word center by Bower, Bruce / Science News
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