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Direct linkCrain, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2008
Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what "or" means in ordinary statements of the form "A or B". Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us that young children do not learn what "or" means by watching how adults use "or". An alternative is to suppose that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Semantics, Child Language
Peer reviewedJay, Timothy B. – Language and Speech, 1981
Examines how one interprets and reacts to dirty-word descriptors. Subjects judged how much they would like a fictitious person described with dirty and non-dirty adjective pairs. Liking was influenced by: (1) semantic interpretation, (2) intrinsicalness of the adjective for the person described, and (3) contextual relations between speaker and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Usage, Pragmatics
Peer reviewedHolzman, Mathilda S. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Computers, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
