@article{ref1,
title="Sherlock holmes and the strange case of the missing attribution: a historical note on "the grandfather passage"",
journal="Journal of speech, language, and hearing research",
year="2012",
author="Reilly, Jamie and Fisher, Jamie L.",
volume="55",
number="1",
pages="84-88",
abstract="PURPOSE: In 1963, Charles Van Riper published &quot;My Grandfather,&quot; a short reading passage that has evolved into a ubiquitous metric of reading ability and speech intelligibility. In this historical note, we describe several heretofore unacknowledged similarities between &quot;The Grandfather Passage&quot; (Darley, Aronson, & Brown, 1975) and a portion of The Valley of Fear (Conan Doyle, 1915/2006), the final novel of the Sherlock Holmes series. We also describe overlap between &quot;My Grandfather&quot; and &quot;The Grandfather Passage.&quot; METHOD: We contrasted propositions within The Valley of Fear to &quot;My Grandfather&quot; and &quot;The Grandfather Passage.&quot; We also compared the respective text strings using the Turnitin antiplagiarism software application (iParadigms, 2011). RESULTS: &quot;My Grandfather&quot; and &quot;The Grandfather Passage&quot; are nearly identical passages with 88% string overlap. In addition, both passages show similarities with text from The Valley of Fear. CONCLUSIONS: Darley et al. (1975) did not acknowledge Van Riper (1963) as the original author of &quot;The Grandfather Passage.&quot; In addition to this citation oversight, neither Darley et al. nor Van Riper attributed Conan Doyle as original source material. We describe the colorful history of this passage that has seen a remarkable breadth of utility in speech and language sciences.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1092-4388",
doi="10.1044/1092-4388(2011/11-0158)",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2011/11-0158)"
}