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Peer reviewedBaron, R. J. – International Journal Of Man-Machine Studies, 1974
A report which describes a theory and corresponding model for the neural basis of language. A detailed functional description is given for elementary visual-linguistic processes. (Author)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Language, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedDeVito, Joseph A.; Civikly, Carol M. – Journal of Communication, 1972
From this investigation it appears that native English speakers do perceive repetition in sounds as being appropriate and meaningful for certain visual representations. (Authors)
Descriptors: Feedback, Language Research, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
Watase, Yoshiro – Linguistique, 1975
This article concentrates on the syntagmatic element involved in using and understanding various signalling systems. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language, Language Patterns, Language Research
Mulder, J. W. F.; Hervey, S. G. J. – Linguistique, 1975
Based on Mulder's previous classification of all semiotic systems designed to describe the system of discrete features in human languages, this article explores a further subclassification of the genus language into species. (CLK)
Descriptors: Language, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals
Peer reviewedHerold, Arthur L. – Language Learning, 1983
Presents a rationale for undertaking the study of language. Views this study as a psychological investigation into how the self forms an identity of itself through its language, rather than how it is formed by its language. Thus, the structure of language is seen as a representational system, allowing a multiplicity of meanings. (SL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals
Peer reviewedNattiez, Jean Jacques – Cahier de Linguistique, 1975
After discussing the nature and application of the word "semiology" (or semiotics) and briefly reviewing research in semiotics, this article examines the issue of whether or not semiotics can be considered an independent discipline. Available from Les Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, C.P. 250, Succursale N, Montreal, Canada H2X 3M4. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Art, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Patterns, Language Research
Peer reviewedRobinson, Jacques H.; Griffith, Penny L. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Explores the operational and conceptual meanings of the iconicity of manual signs and sign languages. Empirical studies related to the operational definition of iconicity in American Sign Language are described, and implications of parallels between iconicity and "stimulus meaningfulness" are discussed in relation to the scientific…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedSkupien, Janet – Language & Communication, 1997
Presents accounts of theories locating the sources of the signifying capacities of words in their imbrication with nondiscursive structures and practices. Points out that a tradition of philosophical, linguistic, and semiotic theorizing has attempted to clarify what it is for words to have the meanings they do in terms of the relation of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis, Language Research
