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Develops an experimental technique for investigating the effect of certain linguistic and psychological phenomena on language behavior. Latency between semantically congruent, ambiguous and vague sentences; Linguists' reliance on formal observation and introspective analyses.

This article focuses on the measurement of grammatical constraints. By means of the coefficient of constraint (D) it is possible to measure the constraint exercised by one grammatical type on another, calculating the redundancy of the nth grammatical type when only the first of the chain is known. Mathematical communication theory has been used to calculate the information transmitted by sequences of n letters. These measures of linguistic constraint are equally adjustable to the measurement of grammatical constraint: that is, the cohesion of words. One of the aspects of this cohesion is the impact of one linguistic type on another in the sentence.

The article studies the incidental learning of accessible names and definitions. An experiment was conducted to test and improve three hypotheses concerning the effects of exposing adults to varying combinations of names, definitions, and referents when the motivation to learn was at a minimum and when instructions could be easily executed. The results indicate that denotative definitions could be accurately remembered or utilized under most conditions. Responding with a connotative definition to a name was the least efficient method of learning but only in the absence of a denotative definition.