Each of the following 40 test items

What's here makes the learning tool case in a number of ways, starting with a vocabulary-size test Rosetta Stone Languages based upon an authoritative Ameriphone dictionary of under 40,000 headword-definition combinations. This includes a description of basic metrology theory (authoritative standards, calibration, and testing) and its relationship to Zipf-influenced lexicology (headword-definition combinations, long tail variations in word frequency, principle of least effort, etc.) At a time when Ameriphonics is rapidly becoming a global language, I believe what's here deserves attention from both ends of the vocabulary table: children who are beginning to learn words and senior citizens who are beginning to go blank on them. In the long run, as Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jacobson have both pointed out, it's vocabulary, not grammar, that shapes our recognition of similarity and thus our rational awareness of the world in which we live and work. To measure vocabularies, or at least try, is to take the measure of ourselves, along with the social universe that houses us all productively so. ***SECTION TWO: HOW TO CONSTRUCT AND USE DICTIONARY-BASED HEADWORD-DEFINITION TESTS The first part of what's here is intended to present a complete picture of how to construct and use dictionary-based headword-definition Rosetta Stone French tests. It begins with a specific ready-to-use vocabulary test based upon a specific dictionary, which is followed by its answer key. It then moves on to describe how tests like these can be constructed and put to productive social use on a number of levels. A1: AN ILLUSTRATIVE VOCABULARY TEST. . . . This test of vocabulary size bears comparison with other tests regulated and approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards). In metrological terms this means that what's here is (a) based upon an authoritative grading standard (standard lexicographical practice as represented by the Random House dictionary group), (b) the capability of being calibrated, i.e., classifying and ranking words via clearly defined variables, and (c) testable in a thrifty, transparent, and replicable manner. DIRECTIONS FOR TEST TAKERS. . . . Rosetta Stone V3 Each of the following 40 test items, very much like a spelling bee, asks you to identify a specific headword-definition combination in the Random House Large Print Dictionary (RHLP) on the basis of (a) its pronunciation, as represented by keyboard characters in slant lines; (b) its part of speech via abbreviation (e.g., n. noun); and Rosetta Stone (c) a specific definition, exactly as it appears in RHLP, including its numerical sequence where relevant.