Abstract
The meaningfulness of stimuli might be determined by the rules of the conceptual frameworks in which they could be imbedded. Some, if not most, concepts are not to be found in stimuli or even in responses but rather in sets of systematic relations or bodies of rules. The chapter explores an especially clear case involving the rules of language having to do with the formation of syllables in English and discusses experiments in which the set of rules provided a metric on which a psychological distance metric was found to depend. The linguistic scale predicted meaningfulness of the stimuli concocted to test the theory. The chapter discusses the more general case of accounting for the meaningfulness of CVC nonsense syllables. The meaningfulness of stimuli might be accounted for in terms of concepts, but concepts are not to be found in any simple way in the raw elements of the stimuli or responses.
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