A BASIC SPOKEN GERMAN VOCABULARY IS LISTED IN (1) ALPHABETICAL ORDER, (2) ORDER OF PARTS OF SPEECH, AND (3) ORDER OF FREQUENCY AND ORIGIN. THE SOURCE MATERIALS USED WERE GATHERED IN 400 TAPED INTERVIEWS AND 5,400 WRITTEN RECORDS OF SPONTANEOUS ASSOCIATION. FROM THE DATA GATHERED, EACH SPOKEN WORD OR WORD FORM WAS TRANSFERRED SINGLY AND IN CONTEXT ONTO PUNCHED CARDS AT A COMPUTING CENTER. PROPER NAMES, PLACE NAMES, AND ADJECTIVES DERIVED FROM PLACE NAMES WERE EXCLUDED. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES WERE APPLIED BY USE OF DATA PROCESSING. THE FINAL VOCABULARY CONSISTED OF 1,269 WORDS. THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED BY PRENTICE-HALL, INC.,ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY 07632, 1964, 79 PAGES. RELATED REPORTS ARE AA 000 102 AND AA 000 141. (TC)