The organization of our knowledge about the world into an interconnected network of concepts linked by relations profoundly impacts many facets of cognition, including attention, memory retrieval, reasoning, and learning. It is therefore crucial to understand how organized semantic representations are acquired. The present experiment investigated…

Perturbations to the speech articulators induced by frequently using an interfering object during infancy (i.e., pacifier) might shape children's language experience and the building of conceptual representations. Seventy-one typically developing third graders performed a semantic categorization task with abstract, concrete and emotional words.…

This article reviews the terms and concepts that have been used for describing regulation of learning during cooperative and collaborative learning and suggests differentiating them on the basis of which parts of a regulatory feedback loop model are being shared. During cooperative and collaborative learning, not only self-regulation but also the…

Lexical access is the process in which basic components of meaning in language, the lexical entries (words) are activated. This activation is based on the organization and representational structure of the lexical entries. Semantic features of words, which are the prominent semantic characteristics of a word concept, provide important information…

For this project I worked with twelve of my fourth grade students from a local school in the southwestern part of Stokes County, North Carolina on increasing their vocabulary skills through the development and implementation of seven vocabulary strategies. During the Literature Review I came across the following seven strategies: Prediction;…

The nature of the task of defining words by means of other words and the development of language responses (from children aged four to seven) are discussed in terms of a linguistic analysis of the definitional form and its semantic relations. (Author/RM)

Discusses the notions of "word,""term," and "expression," and various semantic relationships with which the technical translator must deal. (AM)

This article examines the concept of "antonym" and the various types of antonyms in order to determine a coherent structure. Far from being simple, the structure of antomym is seen as containing a gradation of meaning going from relativity to the absolute, and thus it is seen as a reflection of conceptual dialectic. (Text is in French.)…

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

TO MEASURE THE MEANING ASSIGNED BY LOCAL SCHOOL PERSONNEL TO NEW PROGRAM PLANNING CONCEPTS IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, DIFFERENCES WERE DETERMINED BETWEEN (1) A NEW AND A COMPARABLE TRADITIONAL CONCEPT, (2) THE CLUSTER OF NEW CONCEPTS AND THE CLUSTER OF TRADITIONAL CONCEPTS, AND (3) THE CLUSTER OF NEW CONCEPTS AND A CLUSTER OF CONCEPTS ON…

Research reported in this paper is part of a more general investigation into the speech, reading and writing of 5- to 7-year olds. It is designed to trace children's comprehension of instructional terms and their abilities to identify units in written and spoken language while they learn to read. (Author/CB)

Reports on a study investigating the nature of metaphoric language in children's usage, specifically examining the unconventional word uses of one child between the ages of two years, three months, and four years, ten months. (Author/AM)

Response to Robert A. Hall, Jr.'s article, "Why a Structural Semantics Is Impossible," Language Sciences, n21. (DD)

This paper is an attempt to summarize as explicitly as possible certain empirical findings of classical biosystematics and modern semantic ethnography which may be considered to represent formal universals of human mental structure. The paper offers a formal treatment of the subject of taxonomy, and an application of the formalism to several…