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From: kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: tip-of-the-tongue phenom- phoneme or alphachar?
Message-ID: <3500010@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 20:44:49 GMT
References: <3500009@hpindda.HP.COM>
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   For those interested, a couple of other responses I received are below:
   (looks like (from a very small sample set) the alphachars win, which
   (very) loosely implies that words may be stored based on visual information,
   not acoustic info)...

						kevin


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From:   ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net

> 	When people encounter the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and,
> as sometimes occurs, remember only the begnning of the desired word, 
> do they remember the first alphabetic letter or the first phonetic
> syllable on average?

I almost always remember the first alphabetic letter, or maybe a phoneme.
I very rarely remember a whole syllable.
---
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.


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From:   huttar@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Lars Huttar)
In article <3500009@hpindda.HP.COM> you write:
>
>	When people encounter the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and,
>as sometimes occurs, remember only the begnning of the desired word, 
>do they remember the first alphabetic letter or the first phonetic
>syllable on average?  In the case of non-alphabetic character sets,
>do people with this phenomenon recall only part of the written character,
>or part of the word describing that character?
>
>					thanks for any insights,
>					  kevin

If you're looking for a study, well, this isn't it, but I can tell you
that when this phenomenon happens to me, I remember the first alphabetic
character, even if it doesn't represent the first phoneme of the word.
E.g. 'p' for 'phoneme'.

Lars