Presents an analysis of the similarities and differences between the temporal conjunctions "when" and "while." (AM)

Guttman's mapping sentence technique is examined as a mechanism for defining domains of cognitive behavior and for generating test items to measure achievement in those domains. The utility of the mechanism as compared to alternatives is discussed. (Author/JKS)

Two experiments offer clear support for an interactive view of sentence comprehension; semantic factors do interact with syntactic factors. (RL)

Provides a history of the development of the theory of the "circumstantial" in grammar, presents its chief concepts, and discusses its implications for a theory of semantics. (AM)

Discusses how patterned reading materials may be used in initial reading to help students use their semantic and syntactic knowledge to predict meaning. (DD)

Discusses the relationship between linguistic analysis of a legal text and the various possible interpretations of the same text. An example is taken from civic duties ideology. (AM)

Reports on two experiments conducted to test the hypothesis that the spacing effect in free recall results from greater semantic-feature variability across distributed repetitions than massed repetition. (AM)

Contains four suggested vocabulary learning activities, concentrating on (1) partitive expressions in street names, (2) sports vocabulary, (3) slang expressions, and (4) the many meanings of the words "jouer" and "jeu." (AM)

Discusses the primacy of thought over speech, and "semantic translation" vs "communicative translation," relating the former to thought, and the latter to speech. (AM)

The study examined the effects of age and language dominance of the recall of 72 bilingual children, ranging from preschool to second grade, in 2 semantically different modes of presentation. (Author/NQ)

In the two-city study of Austin, Texas, and Chula Vista, California, the readers' perceptions of newspaper stories were measured by means of a 27-item semantic differential bipolar adjective scale called the Readers' News Value Scale. Readers also evaluated the General Newsworthiness of each article they read by checking a seven-point scale from…

Discusses the messages found in comic strip dialogue, the correlations between the messages and the images and the semiotic value of the whole. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Evaluates C. L. Stevenson's theory of emotive meaning, an integral part to his general metaethical theory. This theory allows him to explain why ethics cannot be reduced to a branch of science and why ethical disagreements are often not susceptible to solution by empirical or logical means. (Author/RK)

Discusses for the benefit of German students of Russian the various ways of rendering in Russian the German verb "haben" (have) used in the sense of "besitzen" (own). Numerous examples are presented. (Text is in German.) (FB)

Considers contemporary Russian usage with regard to variations in the genitive, accusative and nominative inflections and the synonymity of full and shortened adjective forms. Material is excerpted from "Stilistik der russischen Sprache" (Russian Language Style) by D. Rosental and M. Telenkowa. (Text is in German.) (FB)