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Publication details [#62162]

Tat, Michael J. and Tamiko Azuma. 2016. Remembering “txt” but not “text”: The effect of context and lexicality on memory for text message abbreviations. Applied Psycholinguistics 37 (2) : 435–459.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

This study explores the nature of episodic memory representations for diverse types of text abbreviations (deletions, substitutions or “pseudo” abbreviations) and how top-down contextual information affects their encoding. It is found that text abbreviations have separate episodic memory representations that integrate their singular surface feature information and are closely linked to entirely spelled lexical memory representations.