Abstract
Research reports using a variable of paradigmatic or syntagmatic oral responses have been reported over a ten-year period. To date there has been no serious attempt to assess the base data that might account for these two different types of productions.
Paradigmatic responses are traced, in this report, to a formal structure of Units, Relations, Classes, and Systems products of the intellect.
Syntagmatic responses are traced to the base reference used by the subject to produce his response to the stimulus. These base references are reported as reference to a cloze response, or a response dealing with the structure of oral language.
The response data used for this analysis were collected from subjects ranging from 3 years of age to 63 years of age. Over 5000 individual samples involving some 150,000 responses comprised the data base for this study.