The experiments involved 11,571 abstracts (with titles), 1,000 key-word stems and 93 search requests. Measures of word association are derived in several ways from the numbers of documents in which two given words co-occur, and measures of similarity from the numbers of words associated with both. Word clusters with different degrees of overlap…

College students were administered a list of middle-frequency words, in which individual words are presented from one to six times. Half the subjects pronounced the list, while the other half remained silent. On a subsequent frequency judgment task, pronunciation subjects failed to differ significantly from silent subjects on mean judgments of…

Until now, irregular sound change due to frequency has been considered as something sporadic, affecting only vocabulary, whereas, irregular sound change due to frequency, which concerns reductions in morphemes as well, especially inflectional ones, is the third essential factor of linguistic evolution, in addition to regular sound change. In any…

Genealogical properties refer to those etymological properties which underlie such classifications as inherited, borrowed, on internally created words. (DD)

Investigation is concerned with the nature of the memory representation that serves as a basis for frequency judgments. (Author)

A statistical measure is developed for predicting the terms from a restricted vocabulary that will be used to index a document, given that one of the index terms is known. (Author)

Results revealed a significant Intelligence x Frequency interaction, which indicated that the retarded group exhibited an incidential learning deficit but only under the high frequency condition. A possible explanation for this finding was discussed within the context of depth of processing. (Author)

Comparison of the lexical characteristics of 88 auditory misperceptions showed no difference in word-frequency, neighborhood density, and neighborhood frequency between the actual and the perceived utterances. Another comparison showed that slip of the ear tokens had denser neighborhoods and higher neighborhood frequency than words in general.…

Study of the relationship between family frequency, form frequency, and elementary school students' word knowledge indicated that family frequency tended to be a sizably better predictor of student word knowledge than was form frequency. (Author/CB)

Finger-movement distances for alphabetic keys of standard and Dvorak keyboards were calculated for every digraph in the business vocabulary. Dvorak required 37% less distance and had more right-hand, home-row, same-row, and alternate hand reaches. (SK)

Analyzes the use and distribution of the adverbs "almost" and "nearly" based on the LOB corpus, data compiled at the universities of Lancaster (England), Oslo (Norway), and Bergen (Norway) between 1970 and 1978. (six references) (CFM)

Reviews informetric, or bibliometric, distributions, including Lotka's, rank frequency distributions, Zipf functions, Mandelbrot functions, Leimkuhler functions, and Bradford's formulations. An example of the use of these techniques to analyze song texts of Thomas Dolby is given, and results are reported that show a fit with a Leimkuhler function.…

Two large collections of spontaneous transcribed speech (over 2000 conversations), one U.S. and one British, were analyzed for word repetitions. Four stages of repeated words reflect different principles, and the principles appear to be general and not specific to repeats. (SLD)

The 250 most frequently used words in television captions are listed in order of frequency. This table is a correction to the table printed in the article "Instant Reading Incentives: TV Captions," in the September 1997 issue. (DB)