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is inferior to that of mere symmetrical construction of the sentences. 
6. The absence of subject, predicate or object or inversion of 
the order of words are an impediment to audition; the hearing 
distance is lessened by it. ; 
7. Hearing is the result of the joint action of perception and 
assimilation. For sentences of 3 to 9 syllables the influence of the 
reproduction-tendencies, consequent on the apperceived elements, 
counterbalances that of the inhibition, caused by an increase of the 
number of syllabies. Only for sentences of 10 and more syllables 
the latter seems to get the start of the former. 
8. The index loquelae i.e. the relation between the mean distances 
at which whispered sentences and whispered words are heard is *’/,,,. 
