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Holyoak, Keith J.; Walker, Janet H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Subjects compared the magnitudes of pairs of concepts from the semantic orderings of time, quality and temperature. Results showed that the semantic representations of ordered terms contain subjective magnitude information. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Research, Psycholinguistics
MacWhinney, Brian; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Analyzes ellipsis, pronominalization, emphatic stress, the indefinite article, the definite article, and initialization as used by child and adult speakers of English, Hungarian, and Italian. Conclusions: marked differences between the languages; early learning of the functions of the devices; some changes with age. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, English
