Schallanalysen.

1930 Program 47th Meeting Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 12 An attempt to illustrate the present status of Schallanalyse in its visual, acoustic, and motoric approach.

1931 Year's Work Mod. Lang. Studies I. iii. 126 Siever's ‘Schallanalyse’..is a method of restoring the accentuation of a given textual record by registering and analyzing the reaction of a trained observer, who responds instinctively and directly to the psychological compulsion exerted by the text on any one who reads it aloud.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. ii. 44 One must exclude from linguistics proper all consideration of rhythm (including the so-called Schallanalyse).

1947 C. L. Wrenn Poetry of Cædmon 3 But it is made very clear at the outset of this [sc. Sievers's] exposition of Schallanalyse that only those who possess certain qualities in their motor nerves can participate in such experiments or judge of their effects.

1953 K. Sisam Stud. Hist. Old Eng. Lit. vi. 103 Sievers, using arguments from ‘Schallanalyse’ which I cannot follow, concludes that the translator of Genesis B produced the whole work Genesis A and B by a process of compilation and revision.