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Direct linkLevinson, Stephen C.; Burenhult, Niclas – Language, 2009
This short report draws attention to an interesting kind of configuration in the lexicon that seems to have escaped theoretical or systematic descriptive attention. These configurations, which we dub SEMPLATES, consist of an abstract structure or template, which is recurrently instantiated in a number of lexical sets, typically of different form…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Vocabulary Development
Thompson, Cynthia K. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: To introduce a Clinical Forum focused on the Complexity Account of Treatment Efficacy (C. K. Thompson, L. P. Shapiro, S. Kiran, & J. Sobecks, 2003), a counterintuitive but effective approach for treating language disorders. This approach espouses training "complex" structures to promote generalized improvement of simpler, linguistically…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Difficulty Level, Generalization
Breheny, Richard; Katsos, Napoleon; Williams, John – Cognition, 2006
Recent research in semantics and pragmatics has revived the debate about whether there are two cognitively distinct categories of conversational implicatures: generalised and particularised. Generalised conversational implicatures are so-called because they seem to arise more or less independently of contextual support. Particularised implicatures…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Inferences, Semantics, Pragmatics
