APA Dictionary of Psychology

trigram

Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
  1. any three-letter combination, particularly a nonsense syllable used in studies of learning and memory.
  2. in studies of language processing, a sequence of three words, syllables, or other items in which the identity of the first two items is used as a basis for predicting the third.
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