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Peer reviewedBarnett, George A. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1977
To investigate the semantic organization of bilinguals, multi-dimensional scaling was applied to a series of direct pair comparisons among a group of symbols from both languages. Results indicate that semantic content is the primary determinant of the bilingual's semantic structure. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, College Students, English, French
Download full textBarnett, George A. – 1979
An experiment was conducted to investigate the nature of synonyms by using multidimensional scaling. The selected concept was "pig" and three of its synonyms--"hog,""boar," and "swine." These terms vary in their frequency of use in English, which makes it possible to explore a behaviorally based theory of…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Language Research
