This paper discusses a problem in semantic analysis of modern standard Thai. The synchronically polysememic morpheme /cay/ has meanings approximately equivalent to English "heart, mind, spirit" and "breath." A purely descriptive approach to this form would require two separate dictionary entries for /cay/. An examination of the…

It was anticipated that the single-word free association responses to sentences varying in degree of semantic integration (as indexed by sentence norms) would differ quantitatively. One group of 60 undergraduates was given a list of 16 sentences characterized by high semantic integration (HSI), while another group of 60 undergraduates received a…

Forty-four undergraduates were assigned to two groups of 22 subjects each. The high association (HA) group was given booklets that contained a series of associatively related (free association norms) contrastive adjectives, one pair to a page, while the low association (LA) group was given booklets containing pairs of associatively unrelated…

Verbs of motion are understood in this paper as those verbs which refer to changes in locus. This definition is meant to exclude those cases in which only part of an object is moved, while the object as a whole remains in the same place ("swell,""expand,""stretch"). A discussion of this definition (Chapter 1) is…

Briefly desctibes (1) the abstraction theory of word meaning acquisition and (2) three distinguishable versions of a conceptually based approach to the acquisition of word meaning. (JMB)

Discusses the acquisition of verb meaning based on the premise that there is a fundamental difference between the relational meanings expressed by verbs and the referential meanings expressed by simple nouns. (JMB)

Children in grades 1 to 8 were given picture-word pairs and were asked to say whether the items rhymed, in a sound task, or "went together," in a meaning task. It was concluded that children can get meaning from printed words without the use of an intermediate phonemic code. (Author/JMB)

Draws distinctions between the terms semantics (dealing with such verbal parameters as dictionaries and "laws" of logic and rhetoric), general semantics (semantics, plus the complex, dynamic, organismal properties of human beings and their physical environment), and neurosemantics (names for relations-based input from the neurosensory…

Describes the meanings of question forms in Mandarin Chinese in different syntactic contexts. It is shown that the "wh" question words and other question forms have specific meanings in specific environments. (EKN)

Author discusses the meaning of the word Anglo-American'' and what the hyphen meant when it first entered the English language. (Author/CB)

The author describes and discusses a mediation situation where principles of general semantic epistemology were used to promote accord and communication leading to negotiation. (MS)

As it affects economics, inflation has affected educational jargon, maintains this author, who "researched" this question so thoroughly that it has become her "area of expertise." The result is a devastating critique of "educationese" for everything from teacher rating "instruments" (once called…

Employed multidimensional scaling to investigate semantic domains. Studied two semantic categories that varied in abstractness (animals and emotions) in six cultures (Greece, Haiti, Hong Kong, Spain, United States, and Vietnam). (Author/MK)

Discusses the problems posed by a semantic analysis of the future tense in French, addressing particularly its double use as a tense and as a mood. The distinction between linear and branching time, or, certainty and possibility, central to this discussion, leads to a comparative analysis of future and conditional. (MES)