Contents: A. Davison, G.M. Green, Introduction. B. Bruce, A. Rubin, Readability Formulas: Matching Tool and Task. R.C. Anderson, A. Davison, Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Readability Formulas. E.L. Baker, N.K. Atwood, T.M. Duffy, Cognitive Approaches to Assessing the Readability of Text. V. Charrow, Readability vs. Comprehensibility: A Case Study in Improving a Real Document. G.M. Green, M.S. Olsen, Preferences for and Comprehension of Original and Readability Adapted Materials. S. Kemper, Inferential Complexity and the Readability of Tests. S. Crain, D. Shankweiler, Syntactic Complexity and Reading Acquisition. L. Frazier, The Study of Linguistic Complexity. J.H. Randall, Of Butchers and Bakers and Candlestick-Makers: The Problem of Morphology in Understanding Words. C.S. Smith, Factors of Linguistic Complexity and Performance.