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)

Presents the definitions and evolution of 18 words recently coined. (DD)

Attacks the notion that a literal meaning can be defined for every sentence, independent of its context. (AM)

Examines some of the difficulties involved in the legal use of the term "raison social" in Quebec law, and makes recommendations for improving the situation through new terminology. (AM)

Considers the various meanings and uses of the Russian particle "khot'." The article adapts material from "Particles in Colloquial Russian" (Progress Publishers, Moscow) by A.N. Vasilyeva. (Text is in German.) (FB)

Illustrates how poetry may evoke reactions of intensional and extensional meanings which are the key to poetry therapy sessions. (HOD)

Describes a study which ascertained what influences (if any) general semantics training might have on one's "allness orientation," or the belief that one is in possession of all the facts, with dogmatic insistence on their concrete reality. (HOD)