Category Archives: Chapter 12 – Empirical studies of speech and language usage

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Eisenson, J. (1938). The psychology of speech. New York: Crofts. [FULLTEXT]

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Thorndike, E. L. (1937). On the number of words of any given frequency of use. Psychological Record, 1, 399-406. [FULLTEXT]

Briones, I. T. (1937). An experimental comparison of two forms of linguistic learning. Psychological Record, 1, 205-214. [FULLTEXT]

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Fox, C. W. (1935). An experimental study of naming. American Journal of Psychology, 47(4), 545-579. [FULLTEXT]

Hollingworth, H. (1935). The conditions of verbal configuration. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 299-306. [FULLTEXT]

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Allport, G. W. (1935). Phonetic symbolism in Hungarian words. PhD Thesis, Harvard University, Boston, Mass.

Wittmann, J. (1934). Die physiognomische Urbedeutung des Wortes und das Problem der Bedeutungsentwicklung. Bericht über den XIII. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Leipzig vom 16.–19. Oktober 1933, 187-190. [FULLTEXT]

Cason, H. (1934). The role of verbal activities in the conditioning of human subjects. Psychological Review, 41(6), 563-571. doi:10.1037/h0074367. [FULLTEXT]

Howells, T. H., & Schoolland, J. B. (1934). An experimental study of speech perception. Journal of General Psychology, 11, 337-347. [FULLTEXT]

Taylor, H. C. (1934). Social agreement on personality traits as judged from speech. Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 244-248. doi:10.1080/00224545.1934.9919452. [FULLTEXT]

Wolfle, D. L. (1934). The rôle of generalization in language. British Journal of Psychology, 24, 434-444. [FULLTEXT]

Allport, G. W., & Cantril, H. (1934). Judging Personality from Voice. Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 37-55. [FULLTEXT]

Tsuru, S., & Fries, H. (1933). A problem in meaning. Journal of General Psychology, 8, 281-284. [FULLTEXT]

Herzog, H. (1933). Stimme und Persönlichkeit. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 190, 300-369. [FULLTEXT]

Bentley, M., & Varon, E. J. (1933). An accessory study of “phonetic symbolism”. American Journal of Psychology, 45(1), 76-86. doi:10.2307/1414187. [FULLTEXT]

Esper, E. A. (1933). Studies in linguistic behavior: I. Characteristics of unstable verbal reactions. The Journal of General Psychology, 8(2), 346-381. doi:10.1080/00221309.1933.9713192. [FULLTEXT]

Bartlett, F. C. (1932). Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [FULLTEXT]

Zipf, G. K. (1932). Selected studies of the principle of relative frequency in language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [FULLTEXT]

Thorndike, E. L. (1932). A Teacher’s Word Book of the Twenty Thousand Words Found Most Frequently and Widely in General Reading for Children and Young People. New York: Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

Werner, H. (1932). Grundfragen der Sprachphysiognomik. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. [FULLTEXT]

Wolfle, D. L. (1932). The relation between linguistic structure and associative interference in artificial linguistic material. Language, 8, 5-55. doi:10.2307/522170. [FULLTEXT]

Tinker, M. A. (1932). Wundt’s doctorate students and their theses. American Journal of Psychology, 44, 630-637. doi:10.2307/1414529. [FULLTEXT]

Ligon, E. M. A. (1932). Genetic study of color naming and word reading. American Journal of Psychology, 44, 103-121. doi:10.2307/1414958. [FULLTEXT]

Pear, T. H. (1931). Voice and personality. London: Chapman and Hall. [FULLTEXT]

Vernon, M. D. (1931). The experimental study of reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [FULLTEXT]

Russell, O. (1931). Speech and voice: With x-rays of English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, soprano, tenor, and baritone subjects. New York: Macmillan. [FULLTEXT]

Vernon, M. D. (1931). Characteristics of proof-reading. British Journal of Psychology, 21, 368-381. [FULLTEXT]

Newman, S. N. (1931). Further experiments in phonetic symbolism. American Journal of Psychology, 45, 53-75. doi:10.2307/1414186. [FULLTEXT]

Smith, S., & Powers, F. F. (1930). The relative value of vocabulary and sentence practice for language learning. Journal of Social Psychology, 1, 451-461. doi:10.1080/00224545.1930.9714151. [FULLTEXT]

Vernon, M. D. (1930). An apparatus for the photographic recording of eye movements. British Journal of Psychology: General Section, 21, 64-67. [FULLTEXT]

Fletcher, H. (1929). Speech and hearing. New York: Van Nostrand Company. [FULLTEXT]

Kern, A. (1929). Vom inneren Sprechen: Eine experimentelle Untersuchung. Zeitschrift für Kinderforschung, 35, 420-447. [FULLTEXT]

Sapir, E. (1929). A study in phonetic symbolism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 12, 225-239. doi:10.1037/h0070931. [FULLTEXT]

Zipf, G. K. (1929). Relative frequency as a determinant of phonetic change. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 40, 1-95. doi:10.2307/310585. [FULLTEXT]

Adams, S., & Powers, F. F. (1929). The psychology of language. Psychological Bulletin, 26, 241-260. doi:10.1037/h0071853. [FULLTEXT]

Stein, W. (1928). Tachistoskopische Untersuchungen über das Lesen mit sukzessiver Darbietung. Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie, 64, 301-346. [FULLTEXT]

Schaefer, J. (1928). Die erlebte Wortbedeutung bei Darbietung von Einzelwörtern. Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie, 61, 129-196. [FULLTEXT]

Stinchfield, S. M. (1928). The psychology of speech. Boston: Expression Company.

Thurstone, L. L. (1928). An experimental study of nationality preferences. Journal of General Psychology, 1, 405-425. [FULLTEXT]

Tinker, M. A. (1928). Eye movement duration, pause duration, and reading time. Psychological Review, 35, 385-397. doi:10.1037/h0070646. [FULLTEXT]