Replies to Joseph Harris' critique of James Britton's conception of "spectator role" (English Education; v20 n1). (MS)

Reports on a psycholinguistic investigation of a 10-year-old, nonautistic hyperlexic on tasks of written and auditory presentations of single words, sentences, and text. Finds good development of both phonological and lexical reading mechanisms. Finds a significant dissociation between reading accuracy and reading comprehension and also between…

Examines grammatical and discourse-pragmatic reflexes of the existential and resultative readings of the English present perfect and presents negative and positive arguments regarding its ambiguity. It is suggested that the resultative verb represents a formal idiom and that mastery of aspectual grammar entails knowledge of form-meaning pairings.…

Discusses limitations in the development of health care information systems; explains component methodology for complex software development, including component interface semantics; and describes Arachne, a development environment available via the Internet consisting of a set of tools that enables applications to be constructed through…

Perceptions of the value and application of interpretation in counseling vary widely among researchers and practitioners. Exploration of interpretation in counseling often presents contradictory opinions and data. Relating counseling theories, propositional and semantic aspects, and attributional theory to interpretation assists in clarifying the…

The education/training distinction is damaging. Work and learning are active, inclusive, and more useful terms than employment/jobs and education/training. The work/learning concept is helpful in critiquing hierarchical divisions and horizontal or spatial divides in human activity. (SK)

Examined thematic and grammatical role categories accessible to preschool children and how access to these categories changes with age. Results of three experiments with children and adults confirmed the psychological reality of certain semantic categories, and provided evidence suggesting a transition in the prominence of semantic relative to…

Discusses the use of logical imaging in information retrieval. Topics include the use of nonclassical logic in information retrieval; imaging and possible worlds semantics; retrieval by imaging; evaluation processes; worlds mass and worlds distance; and future work. (LRW)

Types of utterances (with locative action utterances specifically differentiated) were evaluated in a language-impaired child tracked between one year, six months and three years of age. Comparison with utterances in other children suggests the importance of such a fine-grained analysis in detecting semantic properties of child language…

Proposes the use of semantic phonology, a simple method of sign phonology. Semantic phonology invites one to look at a sign--a word of a primary sign language--as a marriage of noun and verb. (GLR)

A study was conducted in which Nominal Compounds (NCs) were examined and classified in the field of chemistry from introductory texts. Some pedagogical implications of this study could be to teach the high-frequency semantic relations in NCs at the beginning stages. (16 references) (JL)

Reports on an analysis of the forms, strategies, and functions of complimenting in one genre of written discourse. It is argued that writers use complimenting discourse strategies to establish and maintain rapport and to mitigate both global and genre-specific face-threatening acts and that these social purposes help account for both their…

It is argued that dictionary definitions of objects are enhanced by addition of usage information, sometimes idiomatic and sometimes indicating specific functions of the object. This lexical semantic approach is illustrated primarily with the example of the French word "boite." (MSE)

Papers in this journal issue attempt to identify alternative modes in thinking about language and to develop selected aspects of the proposed alternatives. The introduction describes some problems in Ilokano (Austronesian) and Taiwanese to illustrate the nature of the issues addressed in subsequent articles. (21 references) (Author/LB)

An auditory Stroop task was administered to 20 children with hearing impairment (ages 3-10) and 60 normal-hearing children. Results suggest that the voice-gender and semantic dimensions of speech were not processed independently by children with or without hearing loss. Speech processing by children with hearing impairment was carried out in a…