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Steinberg, Danny D. – 1969
The findings reported in this paper are the result of an experiment to determine the empirical validity of such semantic concepts as analytic, synthetic, and contradictory. Twenty-eight university students were presented with 156 sentences to assign to one of four semantic categories: (1) synthetic ("The dog is a poodle"), (2) analytic…
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Logic, Semantics, Structural Analysis
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Strange, David – Linguistics, 1973
Paper prepared during a workshop conducted by Joseph E. Grimes, January-April 1971, at Ukarumpa, Territory of New Guinea, and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Distinctive Features (Language), Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Hall, Robert A., Jr. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics
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West, Anne – Linguistics, 1973
Field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics; research supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Distinctive Features (Language), Malayo Polynesian Languages, Phrase Structure
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Bangerter, Lowell A. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1973
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), German, Language Instruction, Semantics
Dupuy-Engelhardt, Hiltraud; Philipp, Marthe – Deutsche Sprache, 1974
Foreign language instruction, particularly the learning of new vocabulary, could greatly benefit from the structural description of semantic fields. Examples are provided. (Text is in German.) (DS)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Language Instruction
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Bart, Frederick B. – Language Sciences, 1973
Response to Robert A. Hall, Jr.'s article, "Why a Structural Semantics Is Impossible," Language Sciences, n21. (DD)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Componential Analysis, Concept Formation, Content Analysis
Truby, H. M. – 1964
In order to effect the unambiguous identification of particular members of sets of homonyms--homophones or homographs as the case might be--during the automated conversation of written language to spoken language and/or vice versa, additional linguistic information must become available regarding the primary thought-to-physical-manifestation…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Machine Translation
Zierer, Ernesto – Lenguaje y Ciencias, 1971
This paper considers Spanish adjectives and the possibility of converting some adjectives into adverbs, keeping the same general significance of a sentence. The conversion of an adjective into an adverb under these circumstances can be accomplished through a transformation which can be applied to a particular logical-semantic structure. The author…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics