A study is reported in which the time it takes to access permanent memory and retrieve name-words for visual objects was measured by picture-naming reaction time. (Author/RM)

Knowing which syllables are most commonly used should aid in linguistic research and in the preparation of curriculum materials, particularly in reading. A research project has been undertaken to develop unweighted and weighted (by the frequency of the words in which they appear) syllable lists. At present, two of the project's three phases are…

This article describes a computer program, or package, that has been designed to allow a novice computer user to analyze natural language text by computer. The program can produce collocations, concordances, and word lists. The article also describes the package control language, which is designed to be easily used. Word extraction, word…

It is doubtful whether an exhaustive dictionary of any language can be prepared but such completeness should be aimed for. The criteria used by the 'Worterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache" for leaving out certain words are discussed. About 75 German words, starting with the letter p, not found in this dictionary are listed with their…

This article is a critical review of a number of statistical works, over the past 50 years, dedicated to the determination of the relative frequency of phonemes. (Author/RM)

Modern reading theories that are concerned with the reading process of either mature or immature readers show no clearcut concern with unit size. The various graphic units that are encountered by the reader include letters, graphemes, clusters (such as blends), syllables, phonograms, affixes and roots, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs,…

The study analyzes, for readability and difficulty, the language of 50 commonly used application forms. The forms were compared with respect to length, readability, t-unit density, and word-length variables. Forms were also compared against two word-frequency lists. Results show that many of the words appearing often on forms do not appear on the…

Research studies concerned with the development, utility, and evaluation of various types of word lists are reported in this bibliography. Included are such topics as vocabulary loads in various reading materials, phonic generalizations applied to word lists, and basic speaking, writing, or reading vocabularies of various groups. In Part I, 51…

This volume is the last of four works dealing with the Urdu language prepared by the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. (See "A Course in Urdu," ED 013 435-7; "A Reader of Modern Urdu Poetry," ED 022 163; and "An Urdu Newspaper Reader," AL 002 107.) The present volume, although not intended primarily as…

This paper describes three experiments related to differences in discrimination learning. In Experiment 1, sixth-grade subjects were required to judge the situational frequency of items which had occurred from 0 to 4 times on a study list. For one group the study list consisted of high-frequency words. Another group judged low-frequency words…

Analyzed was the verbal content of 20 institutionalized and 20 non-institutionalized retarded (mean IQ 64) children (mean age 10.7 years) matched for age and IQ to examine the hypothesis that sociological and psychological deficits exist for the institutionalized children and are reflected in language content. Unstructured speech samples were…

This study was to determine the utility of specific phonic generalizations to vocabularies in science textbooks, words special to science, and to compare the Clymer and Bailey studies with the science study. A list of words compiled from three science series, grades on to six, was analyzed via the generalizations and procedures developed by…

This study contains a rank-ordered listing of 1,000 most frequently occurring words accompanied by the percentage and cumulative percentage of language production accounted for by individual words and groups of words. The data are based on eight preschool word frequency counts ranging in date of appearance from 1928 to 1971. One of the advantages…

Words and word fragments from the computer-readable data bases "Chemical Abstracts Condensates" and "Biological Abstracts Previews" were analyzed in terms of length, number, and frequency of appearance to determine some parameters upon which inversion of these data bases could be predicated. Types (unique words or fragments)…

Research on massed practice (MP) and distributed practice effects to preschool children in free recall tasks is reported. A total of 40 kindergarten children were randomly assigned to High Frequency and Low Frequency word groups. No significant differences were found between the two groups on the dimensions of IQ and age. Lists of 32 high…