Things We Said Today: A Linguistic Analysis of the Beatles

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 197-202

  Petrie, Keith J ^a   Pennebaker, James W ^b   Sivertsen, Borge ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Beatles; latent semantic analysis; linguistic analysis; lyrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949856338     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013117     Document Type: Article

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