Repetition effect caused by repeated words between and within language.

Abstract: When words are repeated at short and long lags, and subjects are required to recall them, the probability of recall increases as the distance between the repetitions increases. This spacing effect is assumed to relate to the way in which a word is identified in short-term memory. In the present study, words were repeated interlingually (between-language repetition), were repeated in the same language but in the different scripts (within-language repetition), and were repeated identically (identical repetition) to examine what differences of the repeated words affected the spacing effect. The results showed that the spacing effect was found in all the repetitions, and the proportion of recall in the between-language repetition was higher than that in the other repetitions at short and long lags. The independence and interdependence of each verbal system of two languages were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]