"Working Memory"

[Richard Catrambone]

Well, I don't know about the unambiguous pronunciation part.  I could
imagine pronouncing "deme" as DEEM or DEEMEE or demEE.

Richard

At 11:12 AM -0500 11/27/96, Christian J Lebiere wrote:

.....

>Unlike dme, deme has an unambiguous pronounciation.  We are trying to
>replace our synonymous use of working memory and declarative memory, wme
>and chunk, by a unique designation.  Adopting a word that everyone
>pronounces differently is not exactly a recipe for great communication.



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