THE AMOUNT AND POSITIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF LETTER-CUE SELECTION IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING WERE INVESTIGATED. 2 TYPES OF LIST COMPOSED OF TRIGRAM-DIGIT PAIRS WERE USED. THE STIMULUS TERMS WERE EASY TO PRONOUNCE (EP) IN ONE, AND HARD TO PRONOUNCE (HP) IN THE OTHER. AFTER LEARNING TO CRITERION, SS WERE TESTED FOR DIGIT RECALL WITH 1 OF 4 CLASSES OF CUES: 1ST LETTER OF TRIGRAM, 2ND LETTER, 3RD LETTER, WHOLE TRIGRAM. SS TESTED WITH SINGLE LETTERS WERE ALSO REQUIRED TO REPRODUCE THE MISSING STIMULUS LETTERS. WHEN S FAILED TO REPRODUCE ADDITIONAL LETTERS BUT RECALLED THE DIGIT, SINGLE-LETTER SELECTION WAS INFERRED. THE LEVEL OF STIMULUS-LETTER REPRODUCTION WAS CONSIDERABLY HIGHER FOR EP THAN HP ITEMS. THERE WAS LITTLE SELECTION IN CONDITION EP BUT A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT IN CONDITION HP WHICH WAS LARGELY LIMITED TO 1ST LETTERS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)