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Peer reviewedGuiora, Alexander Z.; Sagi, Abraham – Language Learning, 1978
Reports on an experiment conducted on 23 Israeli kindergarteners and 16 Israeli college students, which used a variant of a semantic differential test in order to test the hypothesis that young Israeli children, like adults, ascribe sexual meanings to words without regard to grammatical gender. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Grammar
Mayers, R. P. – Englisch, 1975
In connection with the hypotheses of Whorf and Sapir, this article describes a test using Osgood's semantic differential technique on subjects who were monolingual speakers of English or French. The control group consisted of multilinguals. It is concluded that the experiement supports Whorf's hypothesis. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Culture, English, French
