The characteristics of the phonological loop were designed to account for four prominent experimental findings, including the word-length effect. This is best described as ________.
A) a decrement in recall for verbally presented words when the participant is given a concurrent task involving speech
B) a decrement in recall performance when words take longer to verbalize
C) the observation that long words are easier to recall because it is more likely that can be divided in easily recalled short ones
D) a decrement in recall performance when participants hear unrelated speech sounds when trying to learn a list of words

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The word-length effect refers to the phenomenon where longer words are harder to remember than shorter words because they take more time to verbalize. This effect supports the idea that the phonological loop has a limited time capacity.

The Characteristics of the Phonological Loop Were Designed to Account