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Peer reviewedBraisby, Nick; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Argues that discoveries concerning the essential properties of whole categories of word concepts are critical to essentialist intuitions. Reviews studies demonstrating that words and concepts are not used in accordance with essentialism, concluding that since essentialism is not vindicated by ordinary word use, it fails to undermine the cognitive…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Psychology, Intuition, Language Processing
Williams, Ray – ESP Journal, 1985
Justifies the teaching of vocabulary recognition strategies from vocabulary development exercises and reviews five such strategies. These strategies are: (1) inferring from context, (2) identifying lexical familiarization, (3) unchaining nominal compounds, (4) synonym search, and (5) word analysis. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, English for Special Purposes, Language Processing
