By centralizing the issue of test fairness in language proficiency assessments, this study responds to a call by researchers for developing greater social responsibility in the language testing agenda. As inquiries into language attitude and psychology indicate, there is an underlying uncertainty pertaining to the validity of test use and score…

Four patients with fluent aphasia received a semantic feature treatment to improve naming of either typical or atypical items within semantic categories. Patients trained on naming of atypical exemplars demonstrated generalization to naming of intermediate and typical items. Patients trained on typical items demonstrated no generalized naming…

Discourse context may affect comprehension of a word in a text by facilitating lexical access or by facilitating integration of the target concept with the preceding text. In two experiments, we used eye tracking measures to examine contextual influence on the integration of role fillers in scripted narratives. In both experiments, context had an…

In this paper we present a case of "word-meaning deafness," characterised by serious problems in the comprehension of spoken language, whilst repetition and writing words and non-words from dictation are preserved. This performance indicates the impossibility of correctly accessing phonological representation from the semantic representation of…

Provides a portrait of the structure of the categories and tests the correlation between family resemblance and prototypicality of items. (Author)

Deals with the place of semantics within the field of linguistics and suggests that semantics has gained in importance again over American linguistics, which has been concerned with form rather than content. (Author/KM)

Reviews the glossematic theory of linguistic oppositions and suggests a reformulation of the theory in terms of a proposed differentiation theory. (CK)

This brief note attempts to clarify an issue recently raised by Smith, Shoben, and Rips concerning network versus set-theoretic models of semantic memory. (Editor)

This article stresses the need to use words in relationship to reality and to make language a means of communication rather than a means of deception. (PD)

Goffman's indirect method and a MeSH tree structure were used to classify a set of 109 medical documents. (PF)

This monograph discusses prejudice which exists when humans evaluate others. No one sees or hears a man evaluating. One hears or sees only what he says and does. An arbitrary sampling of recent research studies which indicate some of the varieties of mis-evaluation are cited. They reveal that sometimes people show antipathy to people they do not…