Psycho-Linguistics and Properties of Words

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Rubin, D. C.  (1974).  The subjective estimation of relative syllable frequency.  Perception and Psychophysics, 16, 193-196. 

Rubin, D. C.  (1975).  Within word structure in the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 392-397. 

Rubin, D. C.  (1976).  Applying psychometric methods in linguistic research: Some recent advances.  Linguistics, 168, 63-66. 

Rubin, D. C.  (1976).  Frequency of occurrence as a psychophysical continuum: Weber’s fraction, Ekman’s fraction, range effects, and the phi-gamma hypothesis.  Perception and Psychophysics, 20, 327-330

Rubin, D. C.  (1976).  The effectiveness of context before, after, and around a missing word.  Perception and Psychophysics, 19, 214-216.

Rubin, D. C.  (1978).  Word-initial and word-final ngram frequencies.  Journal of Reading Behavior, 10, 171-183.

Rubin, D. C.  (1979).  On measuring fuzziness: A comment on “A fuzzy set approach to modifiers and vagueness in natural language.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 108, 486-489.

Rubin, D. C.  (1980).  51 properties of 125 words: A unit analysis of verbal behavior.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 736-755.

Rubin, D. C., & Olson, M. J.  (1980).  Recall of semantic domains.  Memory and Cognition, 8, 354-366.

Rubin, D. C.  (1981).  First order approximation to English, second order approximation to English, and orthographic neighbor ratio norms for 925 nouns.  Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 13, 713-721.

Rubin, D. C.  (1981).  Norms for 34 properties of 125 words.  JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 11, 19.  Ms. 2213. 

Friendly, M., Franklin, P. E., Hoffman, D. & Rubin, D. C.  (1982).  The Toronto word pool: Norms for imagery, concreteness, orthographic variables, and grammatical usage for 1,080 words.  Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 14, 375-399.

Rubin, D. C., & Corbett, S.  (1982).  Adaptation-level theory and the free recall of mixed-frequency lists.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 20, 27-29.

Solso, R. L., Juel, C., & Rubin, D. C.  (1982).  The frequency and versatility of initial and terminal letters in English words.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 220-235.

Biermann, A., Rodman, R., Rubin, D., & Heidlage, F.  (1985).  Natural language with discrete speech as a mode for human-to-machine communication.  Communications of the ACM, 28, 628-636.

Rubin, D. C.  (1985).  Memorability as a measure of processing: A unit analysis of prose and list learning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114, 213-238.

Rubin, D. C., & Friendly, M.  (1986).  Predicting which words get recalled: Measures of free recall, availability, goodness, emotionality, and pronunciability for 925 nouns.  Memory and Cognition, 14, 79-94.  Abstract reprinted in Cognition and Emotion, (1987), 1, 110-111. 

Schultz, K. A., Schmitt, F. A., Logue, P. E., & Rubin, D. C.  (1986).  Unit analysis of prose memory in clinical and elderly populations.  Developmental Neuropsychology, 2, 77-87.

Kelly, M. H., & Rubin, D. C.  (1988).  Natural rhythmic patterns in English verse: Evidence from child counting-out rhymes.  Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 718-740.Rubin, D. C., & Friendly, M.  (1986).  Predicting which words get recalled: Measures of free recall, availability, goodness, emotionality, and pronunciability for 925 nouns.  Memory and Cognition, 14, 79-94.  Abstract reprinted in Cognition and Emotion, (1987), 1, 110-111. 

Rubin, D. C.  (1988).  Learning poetic language.  In F. Kessel (Ed.), The development of language and language researchers: Essays in honor of Roger Brown (pp. 339-351).  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 

Rubin, D. C., & Wallace, W. T.  (1989).  Rhyme and reason: Analyses of dual retrieval cues.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 698-709.

Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Rubin D. C.  (1990).  Memorabeatlia: A naturalistic study of long-term memory.  Memory and Cognition, 18, 205-214. 

Rubin, D. C., Stolzfus, E. R., & Wall, K. L.  (1991).  The abstraction of form in semantic categories.  Memory and Cognition, 19, 1-7.

Rubin, D. C.  Ciobanu, V., & Langston, W. (1997).   Children’s memory for counting-out rhymes: A cross-language comparison.  Psychonomic Bullletin & Review, 4, 421-424. 

Rubin, D. C. & Schulkind, M. D. (1997).  Properties of word cues for autobiographical memory.  Psychological Reports, 81, 47-50.

Braun, K. & Rubin, D. C. (1998).  The spacing effect depends on an encoding deficit, retrieval, and time in working memory: Evidence from once-presented words.  Memory, 6, 37-65.

Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (1998).  Bilingual autobiographical memory in older adult immigrants: A test of cognitive explanations of the reminiscence bump and the linguistic encoding of memories.  Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 437-457. 

Zervakis, J. & Rubin, D. C. (1998).  Memory and learning for a novel written style.  Memory & Cognition, 26, 754-767. 

Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2000).  Internal languages of retrieval: The bilingual encoding of memories for the personal past.  Memory & Cognition, 28, 616-623. 

Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2001).  Effects of voluntary immigration on the distribution of autobiographical memory over the lifespan.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, S75-S88. 

Larsen, S. F., Schrauf, R. W., Fromholt, P., & Rubin, D. C. (2002).  Inner speech and bilingual autobiographical memory: A Polish-Danish cross-cultural study.  Memory, 10, 45-54.

Zervakis, J. & Rubin, D. C. (2002).  Production and recognition bias of stylistic sentences using a story reading task.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31, 107-130. 

Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2003). On the bilingual’s two sets of memories. In R. Fivush & C. Haden (Eds.), Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative self: Developmental and cultural perspectives (pp. 121-145). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2004).  The ‘language’ and ‘feel’ of bilingual memory:  Mnemonic traces.  Estudios de Sociolingüística, 5, 21-39.   

Skotko, B. G., Kensinger, E. A., Locascio, J. J., Einstein, G., Rubin, D. C., Tupler, L. A., Krendl, A. & Corkin, S.  (2004).  Puzzling thoughts for H.M.: Can new semantic information be anchored to old semantic memories?  Neuropsychology, 18, 756-769

Skotko, B. G., Rubin, D. C. & Tupler, L. A. (2008).  H.M.’s personal crossword puzzles: Understanding memory and language.  Memory, 16, 89-96.  PMC18286414

Rubin, D. C. & Talarico, J. M.  (2009).  A comparison of dimensional models of emotion: Evidence from emotions, prototypical events, autobiographical memories, and words.  Memory, 17, 802-808.  PMC2784275

Rubin, D. C, Deffler, S. A., Ogle, C. M., Dowell, N., Graesser, A. C., & Beckham, J. C. (2016).  Participant, rater, and computer measures of coherence in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125, 11-25. PMC4701605

Rubin, D. C, Berntsen, D., Ogle, C. M., Deffler, S. A., & Beckham, J. C. (2016).  Scientific evidence versus outdated beliefs: A response to Brewin (2016). Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125, 1018-1021.  PMC5063074

Deffler, S. A. Fox, C., Ogle, C. M., & Rubin, D. C. (2016).  All my children:  The roles of semantic category and phonetic similarity in the misnaming of familiar individuals.  Memory & Cognition, 44, 989-999. [does not thank grant]