English teacher describes semantic implications of court litigation from the standpoint of a jury member. (GB)

Presented at a meeting of the Federal Government's Attack on Dyslexia (2nd, August 14, 1967). Included are excerpts from the minutes o a meeting held in September of 1966 to discuss a definition of dyslexia. (RJ)

Sixty middle class children (mean age 78.6 months) were tested to determine if recognition of identity precedes recognition of quantitative equivalence when dealing with quantities of liquids. When measuring conservation, the importance of two aspects of language (semantics and syntax) is stressed. (Author/AJ)

It was concluded from the findings that instructors in rehabilitation setting vary significantly from their clients in perceptions of certain critical concepts related to the rehabilitation process. Some implications are discussed and tentative hypotheses are presented. (Author)

Dicussion of the usage and meaning of new words, and the means by which they are acquired. (DR)

The experiments reported here led to the conclusion that changing the semantic context in which a noun appears by pairing it with a different adjective negatively affects a subject's ability to recognize the noun. (FWB)

A Type I incidental learning paradigm was used to examine the manner in which 20 learning disabled (LD) and 20 non-LD children (9 to 11 years old) responded to systematic variations in the semantic elements of words. (Author/SW)

Study investigated bilingual subjects' perceptions of connotative differences between concepts in English and French using a form of the semantic differential in which the scales were derived from Cattell's 16 personality factors. Results show no significant differences in affective meaning between concepts within or across languages but…

The measures of comprehension showed that four-fifths of the children scored lower than the 10th percentile for second-grade hearing children, and two-thirds scored at or below the 1st percentile. Evaluating production, 68 percent of the sentences produced by the children contained semantic, syntactic, or semantic-syntactic errors. (Author)

Discusses the semantic differences between the near-synonyms "detenteur" and "titulaire" in French, and provides a list of terms correctly used with the two words and the additional near-synonym "porteur." (AM)

Presents a model of interpretation, parsing and error recovery in simultaneous translation using two experts and two amateur German-English bilingual translators orally translating from English to German. Argues that the translator first comprehends the text in English and divides it into meaningful units before translating. Study also…

Examines the process of formation of the "syntheme" in German, and its role in the economy of language. (AM)