Tag Archives: words

Nida, E. A. (1963). Morphology: The descriptive analysis of words. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [FULLTEXT]

Austin, J. (1962). How to do things with words. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [FULLTEXT]

Thorndike, E. L., & Lorge, I. (1959). The teacher’s word book of 30,000 words. New York: Teacher’s College, Columbia University. [FULLTEXT]

Jenkins, J. J., Russell, W. A., & Suci, G. J. (1958). An atlas of semantic profiles for 360 words. Journal of American Psychology, 71, 688-699. doi:10.2307/1420326. [FULLTEXT]

McMurray, G. A. (1958). A study of “fittingness” of signs to words by means of the semantic differential. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 56, 310-312. doi:10.1037/h0040893. [FULLTEXT]

Rosenzweig, M. R., & Postman, L. (1958). Frequency of usage and the perception of words. Science, 127, 263-266. doi:10.1126/science.127.3293.263. [FULLTEXT]

Brown, R. (1958). Words and things. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press. [FULLTEXT]

Goldman-Eisler, F. (1958). Speech production and the predictability of words in context. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 10(2), 96-106. doi:10.1080/17470215808416261. [FULLTEXT]

Solomon, R. L., & Postman, L. (1952). Frequency of usage as a determinant of recognition thresholds for words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 43, 195-201. doi:10.1037/h0054636. [FULLTEXT]

Hall, K. (1951). The fitness of signs to words. British Journal of Psychology, 42, 21-33. [FULLTEXT]

Hall, K., & Oldfield, R. (1950). An experimental study on the fitness of signs to words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2, 60-70. doi:10.1080/17470215008416576. [FULLTEXT]

Bingham, W. E. (1943). A study of the relations which the galvanic skin response and sensory reference bear to judgments of the meaningfulness, significance, and importance of 72 words. Journal of Psychology, 16(1), 21-34. doi:10.1080/00223980.1943.9917159. [FULLTEXT]

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

Skinner, B. F. (1937). The distribution of associated words. Psychological Record, 1, 71-76. [FULLTEXT]

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

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.

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

Otis, A. S. (1920). Do we think in words? Psychological Review, 27, 399-419. doi:10.1037/h0072387. [FULLTEXT]

Kirkpatrick, E. A. (1891). Number of words in an ordinary vocabulary. Science, 18, 107-108. [FULLTEXT]

Johnson, S. (1775). A dictionary of the English language: In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers: To which are prefixed, a history of the language and English grammar. London: W. Strahan. [FULLTEXT]