“…However, the data on children's speech rate-span correlations are more equivocal than is often thought (Jarrold & Hall, 2013), and such correlations may be particularly 'noisy' in young children. In addition, a reduction in the size of the word length and phonological similarity effects to non-significant levels in young children may simply reflect the fact that these effects scale proportionally (Beaman, Neath, & Surprenant, 2008;Logie, Della Sala, Laiacona, Chambers, & Wynn, 1996), and are therefore hard to detect in absolute terms among individuals whose overall recall levels are low (Jarrold, Danielsson, & Wang, 2015;Wang, Logie, & Jarrold, in press). Indeed, we have shown that children younger or older than 7 show comparable effects of phonological similarity for visually presented materials when these effects are analysed in proportional terms (Jarrold & Citroën, 2013).…”