English sentences containing the universal quantifiers "each", "every", and "all" are highly complex structures in view of the subtleties of their scope properties and resulting ambiguities. This study explored the acquisition of universal quantifier sentences as reflected in the performance of three diverse college-level student groups on a…

In six analyses using the Child Language Data Exchange System known as CHILDES, we explored whether and how parents and their 1.5- to 5-year-old children talk about writing. Parent speech might include information about the similarity between print and speech and about the difference between writing and drawing. Parents could convey similarity…

Discusses the large body of work on information concepts developed in the USSR and appends a selected bibliography to serve as a guide to the Soviet literature of information for information science. (Author/PF)

The two logical notions of intension and extension are examined and applied to examples of Chinese words. Intension and extension are comparable to "sense" and "reference." It is found that they are not only useful in explaining certain problems concerning meaning, but also cogent in building a formal semantic structure parallel to formal syntax…

The term "curriculum" is ambiguous in that it is used to name a field of phenomena, a fund of knowledge about that field, a kind of knowledge within that fund, and the set of rules by which the fund is substantiated. This paper suggests that to relieve this ambiguity it is necessary to develop an appropriate set of terms with strict…

Suggests that the Royal Spanish Academy change the definition of "neblina" in the next edition of the "Dictionary of the Spanish Language" to "niebla ligera" or "light fog," and cites literary usage in support. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

The terms "meaning" and "significance," as they relate to literary criticism, are considered in the first section of this paper. The paper then examines the meaning of "hermeneutics," the classical discipline concerned with the understanding of texts; introduces the "isomorph" construct; and demonstrates the…

A universal syntax checker was constructed to be utilized with a text editor in a time-sharing environment. This syntax checker is a top-down, left-right, slow-back parser that will provide, when supplied the syntax of any language in the Backus-normal form, a syntax check for any string written in a language described. The procedure is capable of…

Examines the semantics of functional language and discusses the role of linguistics in describing language needs and function. (AM)

Discusses the modalities of "de re" and "de dicto" with reference to Aristotle's system, Barcan's formula, and Kripke's semantics. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)

An hypothesis is proposed to explain the differences between the Russian conjunctions "no" and "odnako." Nine short passages are discussed to illustrate their usage. (RM)

Reviews issues to be considered in determining the order of meanings for a lexeme in a dictionary entry and compares techniques for deciding order. Types of ordering include importance, frequency, logical ordering, dominant meaning, syntactic, and historical. (MSE)

Discusses the botanical, animal, clothing, and genealogy metaphors and personification present in terminology which describes the computer and its functions, and asserts that computers are becoming so personified there is little difference between terms associated with humans and computers. It is also suggested that programmers are becoming less…

Up to two-thirds of African languages have a system of noun classification of some sort. This paper proposes an alternative approach to the noun class system of the Dagaare and Akan languages based more on an interaction between morphology and phonology than on semantics. Dagaare and Akan are two West African languages that exhibit mainly suffixal…