THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE ORDERED DISTRIBUTION OF A GIVEN ITEM IN A TEXT. THE ELEMENT CONSIDERED MAY BE ANY DISCRETE ITEM OR SET OF ITEMS IN A TEXT, SUCH AS A PHONEME OR GROUP OF PHONEMES, A MORPHEME, SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTION OR INTONATION PATTERN. THE AIM IS TO MEASURE NUMERICALLY HOW COMPACTLY (OR DIFFUSELY) THE ITEM IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE TEXT.…

This volume contains information derived from college student ratings of a large number and variety of individual words (along with some nonwords) for seven basic semantic characteristics. The primary data are rating values for over 2800 words for seven dimensions of special significance for current research on verbal behavior and related topics.…

This report is a detailed empirical examination of Suppes' ideas about the syntax and semantics of natural language, and an attempt at supporting the proposal that model-theoretic semantics of the type first proposed by Tarski is a useful tool for understanding the semantics of natural language. Child speech was selected as the best place to find…