One hundred twenty-eight Ss were presented 150 words for study, followed by a two-choice recognition test. (Editor)

Contained are listings of descriptors used to index the literature in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) documentation data base, and to store and retrieve information about the literature for users of the service. Term selection is determined by the vocabulary used in the documents input into the system, the frequency of term…

This reverse dictionary of contemporary standard German is based on 174,170 words from 10 running texts of various genres. It is intended to close the gap in source and study aids for linguistic studies relating to advanced German language courses. The dictionary is arranged in reverse order, i.e., it is read backwards starting on the last page. A…

This article discusses various approaches to vocabulary selection for second language teaching. The criteria of availability, familiarity, coverage, and meaning are suggested as important in vocabulary selection. (AM)

CLASSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS INVOLVES THREE DISTINCT PROCESSES-- (1) DEFINING A STRUCTURE OF CATEGORIES, (2) DETERMINING A BASIS FOR A CLASSIFICATION DECISION, AND (3) CLASSIFYING DOCUMENTS INTO CATEGORIES. OF THE THREE COMPUTER TECHNIQUES ARE DISCUSSED FOR THE LAST TWO. A WORD SELECTION MEASURE IS USED TO DELETE THOSE TERMS IN THE DOCUMENT THAT…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO EXPLORE SOME OF THE VARIABLES THAT INFLUENCE INTRAINDIVIDUAL PHONETIC VARIATION IN CERTAIN ASPECTS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH SPEECH. FORTY COLLEGE STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THE EXPERIMENT. EACH PERFORMED TWO TASKS--(1) READING ALOUD WORDS (16 IN EACH OF FIVE CATEGORIES) FROM FLASHCARDS AS PART OF AN OSTENSIBLE LEARNING…

A study was conducted to examine the effects of word familiarity on auditory discrimination and the interactions of the familiarity variable with age. Thirty-seven word pairs equated in sound and length and 37 nonsense word pairs similarly equated were selected according to the maturational level at which children learn different sounds. The…

This is an alphabetized list of 400 frequent German words for rapid checking against the end glossaries of elementary German textbooks. The emphasis is on words that would not automatically be included in any such textbook as part of the structural and morphological inventory of German. Words on the list were selected from the list in order of…

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of real and nonsense pictures with no labels, high-frequency labels, or low-frequency labels in discrimination learning of young children. The subjects were 102 second-grade children randomly selected from several classrooms located in a semi-rural community in Wisconsin. The subjects were…

The computer program sets up three dictionaries: basic, fiction, and fantasy. It then processes each essay by parsing the essay into words, checking if the word is a legal word (in the dictionary), and adding it to the essay unique word list. If the word was non-unique, the frequency count for that word in the essay word list is increased by one.…

Words in categories of high and low "flash-card learnability" and semantic congruence (logical congruence and associative congruence) were tested. Other independent variables were sex and intelligence (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test). The dependent variable was time in tenths of seconds, from the first presentation of a word list until the…

Students of Japanese history (graduate students with language competence seeking a career in Japanese studies, undergraduates studying the Japanese language, and non-linguist undergraduates and graduate students studying Japanese history for a variety of reasons) have to deal with the Japanese language in different ways. They should all, however,…

Several basic problems in the field of the selection of vocabulary for teaching English as a foreign language are discussed. The nature of word frequency and word availability are considered, along with their limitations as measures of the usefulness of concrete nouns. Word familiarity is proposed as a psycholinguistic measure for noun selection,…

This paper compares a recent revision of the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary with four recently published word lists to find words common to at least three of the four word lists which were not on the Dolch list. These lists were consisted of the 500 most frequent words from the American Heritage Intermediate corpus, the 188 high frequency words from…

An investigation was designed to ascertain the change in the spontaneous oral vocabulary of 25 boys and 25 girls in four successive biennial interviews as the children progressed from kindergarten through grades two, four, and six. The investigation assumed the probable interrelation of children's reading and oral language. Six hypotheses were…