This paper aims to be an introduction to the General Service List (GSL) that brings together descriptive data with material otherwise dispersed throughout the literature. The discussion first provides an historical overview of the work that scholars, researchers, and educators used as foundations for the manufacturing of the GSL. Following, a…

This paper describes the development of technical word lists for elementary school children in the subject areas of art, composition, grammar, handwriting, literature, mathematics, music, physical education, reading, science, social science, and spelling. It summarizes how forms of entries were chosen, what the editing procedures were, and how the…

Summarizes the use of word-spotting in psycholinguistic research. Notes that listeners hear a list of nonsense words, some of which contain embedded real words, and they detect those embedded words, a task designed to study the segmentation of continuous speech. Describes the task and summarizes its advantages and disadvantages. (12 references)…