- These studies were begun at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1959, where both authors were Fellows for the academic year, 1958–59. We are indebted to the Social Science Research Council which enabled us to carry out joint research at the University of Minnesota during the summer of 1960 and to the Psychology Department of that university for the use of its facilities.
- L. Bloomfield, Language (New York, 1933), pp. 127–138; B. Whorf, “Linguistics as an Exact Science,” Technology Review, XLIII (1940), 61–63, 80–83, reprinted in Language, Thought and Reality, ed. John B. Carroll (Cambridge, Mass., 1956), pp. 220–232.
- For those unacquainted with free magnitude estimation, the instructions for subjects which follow should provide sufficient indication.
- S. S. Stevens, “On the Psychophysical Law,” Psychological Review LXIV (1957), 153–181.
- For a discussion of meaningfulness see B. J. Underwood and R. W. Schulz, Meaningfulness and Verbal Learning (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960).
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