A study of the acquisition of time-related grammatical forms in Hebrew-speaking children looked at three kinds of information: (1) relative frequency of occurrence of different verb forms at different ages; (2) the relationship between tense-marking on verbs and the semantics of verbs used at different ages, and (3) the use of time adverbs…

The present research investigated auditory and semantic encoding characteristics of the serial retention paradigm. (Author)

High School seniors responded to two semantic differential instruments, containing dissimilar concepts purporting to measure the same variables, both before and after attending a college summer orientation program. Before-after component combinations were found to be highly similar. (Author/RC)

Presents research findings on sexist uses of language in dictionaries. (RB)

While the exact degree to which the infusion of general semantics will benefit a company is uncertain, it is assured that managers with a scientific orientation toward language, thought, and communication are an important assest to industry. (Author)

Conference held in the Moscow Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, in December 1972; discusses various papers presented at the conference. (HK)

Recent studies have offered support for a constructive view of sentence memory in children, based on their preference in recognition errors for true inferences, which can be drawn from input sentences, over false inferences. However, with the materials used in these studies, this preference may reflect responding either on the basis of semantic or…

A semantic feature analysis was used with native speakers of different language families to test the universality of certain aspects of sentence interpretation. (Author/AM)