Thirty children with a mean length of utterance ranging from 1.00 to 4 and an age range of 1.7 to 5.5 were tested for comprehension of two-noun possessive phrases. Three types of possessive relationships were used to uncover children's knowledge of the semantics and syntax of English possession. (Author/AM)

Discusses information theory and the notions of uncertainty and semantic choice in child language. (AM)

This article discusses a study designed to ascertain the comprehension of the role of "because" in a sentence in children between the ages of 5;8 and 10;11. (CFM)

Discusses the history of the metaphor, its various forms, and the problems involved in an analysis of the metaphor. Analyzes the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of the metaphor. (AM)

Discusses the problems involved in teaching Italian students the English equivalents of the verb "dovere." (CFM)

The study explored the early two-word utterances from four Down's syndrome children (ages 3 to 7 years) to determine if they encode the same relational meanings as children developing language normally. (Author/PHR)

Reports on a study of three children's single-word responses to parents' questions, focusing on the interrelations between children's ability to answer questions, the types of semantic content used in appropriate and inappropriate answers, and questions asked by the parents. (Author/AM)

The study examines one aspect of the relationship between decoding and comprehension--that between word difficulty, decoding ability, and access of single-word meanings. Results indicate that decoding ease and extraction of word meanings are related and suggest that decoding ability must be considered a factor in reading comprehension. (RC)

The storage and retrieval of individual sentences occuring in small sets was substantially enhanced when the sentences were nominally linked by common concepts and when the learner was encouraged to process them semantically. Sentence recall was also positively increased when the learner perceived them to be in a meaningful order. (RC)

The nature of the system of linguistic entities of a natural language is examined. The purpose is to define the relation between "le lexique" and an overall linguistic theory, the relation between form and meaning. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Chooses student involvement in the arts as a way of illuminating the connection between art and spirituality. (Editor)

A group of 83 Czechoslovak industrial managers are tested using the McClelland's need for achievement measure. (Author)

The central question in these experiments concerns the effect of unattended printed words upon a picture-naming task to determine whether print can be read even when it is not being attended to. (Author/RK)

Discusses two propositions about the preliminary stages of acoustic analysis and encoding in the absence of focal attention. (Editor/RK)

Considers two aspects of contemporary Russian language usage: (1) synonymity of prepositions, and (2) semantic and stylistic differences arising when certain verbs govern nouns in different cases. Material is excerpted from "Stilistik der russischen Sprache" (Russian Language Style) by Rosental and M. Telenkowa. (Text is in German.) (FB)