College women associated single-letter responses to compound stimuli consisting of 2 consonant-vowel-trigrams (CVCs) representing high-high, high-low, low-high, or low-low combinations of degree of meaningfulness (M). In a transfer task, when the component CVCs of the training stimuli were presented singly, significantly more correct anticipations occurred to single high-M rather than low-M CVCs, and, in a Position X M interaction, significantly more to low-M CVCs previously in the left-hand position in the compound training stimuli rather than the right-hand position. Compared with control groups which continued to receive their complete training stimuli during the testing phase, experimental groups receiving high-M CVC components, in general showed slight performance decrements, whereas those receiving low-M CVCs showed significant decrements. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)