In this paper we present a case of "word-meaning deafness," characterised by serious problems in the comprehension of spoken language, whilst repetition and writing words and non-words from dictation are preserved. This performance indicates the impossibility of correctly accessing phonological representation from the semantic representation of…

A formative intervention was employed to expose children to a variety of words to increase the breadth, or size of their vocabularies, and to repeatedly and supportively expose children to words to increase the depth, or semantic understanding of vocabulary. Science content words were selected since they are less likely to be included in an…

One of the central challenges of ESL teaching is striking the right balance between form and meaning. In pronunciation pedagogy, this challenge is compounded because repetitive practice, which has been shown to enhance phonological acquisition and promote fluency, is widely viewed as being incompatible with communicative principles. This article…

Clinical and imaging studies suggest that the cerebellum is involved in language tasks, but the extent to which slowed language production in cerebellar patients contributes to their poor performance on these tasks is not clear. We explored this relationship in 18 patients with cerebellar degeneration and 16 healthy controls who completed measures…

By centralizing the issue of test fairness in language proficiency assessments, this study responds to a call by researchers for developing greater social responsibility in the language testing agenda. As inquiries into language attitude and psychology indicate, there is an underlying uncertainty pertaining to the validity of test use and score…

Provides a portrait of the structure of the categories and tests the correlation between family resemblance and prototypicality of items. (Author)

Deals with the place of semantics within the field of linguistics and suggests that semantics has gained in importance again over American linguistics, which has been concerned with form rather than content. (Author/KM)

Reviews the glossematic theory of linguistic oppositions and suggests a reformulation of the theory in terms of a proposed differentiation theory. (CK)

This brief note attempts to clarify an issue recently raised by Smith, Shoben, and Rips concerning network versus set-theoretic models of semantic memory. (Editor)

This article stresses the need to use words in relationship to reality and to make language a means of communication rather than a means of deception. (PD)

Goffman's indirect method and a MeSH tree structure were used to classify a set of 109 medical documents. (PF)