100 Ss judged the 24 CCVCs of Greenberg and Jenkins' (1964) List 1 by the method of Noble, Stockwell, and Pryer (1957). Mean scale values for meaningfulness correlated —.69 with S scale values for the distance of the CCVCs from English. The former values also correlated —.79 with Smith and Koutstaal's (1969) strangeness values for the same CCVCs. Meaningfulness is an additional correlate of Greenberg and Jenkins' (1964) S scale
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