syllable

n. in linguistics, a unit of articulation consisting of a stand-alone vowel or a vowel combined with one or more consonants. The syllable length of a speaker’s sentences is often used as a standard of comparison in psycholinguistic research and in psychometric tests of language development and mental ability. —syllabic adj.

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dual memory theory

see dual-store model of memory.