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day are compared, and therefore the maximum number of cases 

 following the rule for one syllable stimulus words is six and for 

 two and three syllable stimulus words is ten. 



TABLE A 



Number of cases following the rule for the relation between the reaction times for 

 adjective-noun and noun-adjective associations 



Likewise the conclusion drawn from experiment I and from 

 the previous table of experiment II, concerning the variation in 

 the average length of reaction tune with the number of syllables 

 in the stimulus word, is confirmed here, although not so thor- 

 oughly as is the previous conclusion. In most cases throughout 

 the ten days the reaction time increases with the number of 

 syllables in the stimulus word. This holds true for both ad- 

 jectives and nouns. If on a given day adjectives of one, two, 

 and three syllables are given, and if we are looking for a continu- 

 ous increase in reaction time for one to two, and from two to 

 three syllable words, there will be two steps in this increase, 

 either of which may break down. On those days where only 

 two and three syllable words were given there is only one step. 

 Therefore according to the rule previously established there 

 should be 16 successful increases in the reaction time for both 

 adjectives and nouns, during the whole ten days' work. The 

 following table shows to what extent the rule is substantiated 

 when the results are taken by days. 



