uppercase letter

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As we have seen, even inexperienced spellers use uppercase letters more often in the initial positions of their spellings than in the later positions.
The effect of position was not statistically significant for second graders, who produced few uppercase letters.
We therefore calculated the proportion of uppercase letters in the initial, medial, and final positions of all spellings that contained at least three letters.
Generally, children did better when queried about uppercase letters than lowercase letters.
Variables are denoted by strings starting with uppercase letters, while those starting with lower case letters denote constants.
Stressed syllables are identified by uppercase letters and the extra-prominent final stressed syllable in a tone unit is also underlined.
For this sample, uppercase letters were reliably more frequent in the final position than the medial position.
Words were about 3% more likely than nonwords to be printed in all uppercase letters.
The notation uses lowercase letters for household choice variables and uppercase letters for the corresponding economywide per-household totals, which are averages of individual household choices.
Words appeared singly in white uppercase letters centred on a (black) computer screen.
These effects were not significant with uppercase letters, however, raising questions about the role of shape for this set.
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