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The Effects of Representativeness and Concreteness on the "Guessability" of Blissymbols.

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Yovetich, William S.; Young, Theresa A. – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988

Twenty college students, naive to Blissymbols, were asked to "guess" the meaning of 64 Blissymbols presented without their word gloss. The influence of symbol representativeness and the concreteness of associated word labels on the symbols'"guessability" was analyzed. The guessability of a symbol's gloss was significantly…

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Character Recognition, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Disabilities

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THE RELATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION.

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HOROWITZ, ARNOLD E. – 1967

THE RESEARCH REPORTED HERE CONCERNED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WHORF HYPOTHESIS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SOME LINGUISTIC AND REFERENT DIMENSION VARIABLES ON THE LEARNING OF MINIATURE LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS. A MINIATURE LINGUISTIC SYSTEM (MLS) IS A…

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Cultural Influences