Examines the color systems of various Miwok languages and attempts a reconstruction of the Proto-Miwok color system. (AM)

Reports on two experiments which question the assumption that semantic processing is superior to nonsemantic processing, and which demonstrate that effective semantic elaboration cannot be equated with the quantity of semantically congrous information. (Author/AM)

Demonstrates the operation of the universal principles of lexical simplification, through an examination of its use in translation; second language learning and teaching, and simplified reading texts. (Author/AM)

Declining enrollments in aerospace teacher workshops suggest the need for evaluation and cost effectiveness measurements. A major purpose of this article is to illustrate some typical evaluation methodologies, including the semantic differential. (MA)

Slides of unfamiliar individuals were rated on six semantic differential scales by 30 high-dogmatic and 30 low-dogmatic Ss (ages 18-22 years) in order to examine the impact of labels (on persons). (Author/PHR)

Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)

The spontaneous speech of 12 Black children (18-36 months) was evaluated to identify the existence of distinctive Black English features. (Author/CL)

Describes the different stages through which children learn to speak, how they break the language down into its simplest parts, and then develop the rules they need to put the parts together. (GA)

The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce…

Demonstrated that through a brief, didactic, demythologizing approach, college students' attitudes toward mental illness can be changed in a psychosocial or non-medical model direction. Results indicate that such an approach effectively can change students' somewhat negative constructs of mental patients in a positive direction. (Editor)

Discusses the value of using the mother tongue in second language learning as a way of communicating meaning. (Author/HP)

The hypothesis explains the early lexical development of children and the predictions of this hypothesis are shown to be consistent with available data on overextension. (Author/NCR)

This article clarifies the position taken in the Greenfield and Smith book (1976), including relation to speech act theory, and elucidates some general theoretical issues in early language development. (Author/NCR)

Investigates the feasibility of an alternative scoring procedure for the Semantic Differential (SD) that would permit easier analysis by psychotherapists so that the SD's use might increase as a measure of therapy process or outcome. (Author/RK)

Analysis and comparison of the decoding strategies of 50 Hawaiian Islands dialect speakers in grades four, five, and six showed statistically significant differences in the strategies used by average and below-average readers in each grade and across succeeding grade levels. (JM)