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

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Vander Beke, G. E. (1938). French word book. New York: Macmillan. [FULLTEXT]

Oldfield, R. C., & Zangwill, O. (1938). The acquisition of verbal repetition habits. British Journal of Psychology, 29, 12-26. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1938.tb00897.x. [FULLTEXT]

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

Blankenship, A. (1938). Memory span: A review of the literature. Psychological Bulletin, 35(1), 1-25. doi:10.1037/h0061086. [FULLTEXT]

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

Welborn, E. L., & English, H. (1937). Logical learning and retention: a general review of experiments with meaningful verbal materials. Psychological Bulletin, 34, 1-20. doi:10.1037/h0063055. [FULLTEXT]

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

Tinker, M. A. (1936). Eye movement, perception, and legibility in reading. Psychological Bulletin, 33, 275-290. doi:10.1037/h0059661. [FULLTEXT]

Skinner, B. F. (1936). The verbal summator and a method for the study of latent speech. Journal of Psychology, 2, 71-107. doi:10.1080/00223980.1936.9917445. [FULLTEXT]

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

Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 18, 643-662. doi:10.1037/h0054651. [FULLTEXT]

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]

Müller, H. (1935). Experimentelle Beiträge zur Analyse des Verhältnisses von Laut und Sinn. Leipzig: August Pries. [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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

O’Connor, J. (1928). Born that way. Baltimore: William & Wilkins. [FULLTEXT]

Tinker, M. A. (1928). Numerals versus words for efficiency in reading. Journal of Applied Psychology, 12, 190-199. doi:10.1037/h0071889. [FULLTEXT]

Barlow, M. (1928). The rôle of articulation in memorizing. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 11(4), 306-312. doi:10.1037/h0071449. [FULLTEXT]