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A Study on Semantic Relations within Words Lee, MinWoo This study asserts that meaning is not fixed or possessing overall integration conceptually according to contextual perspective, but rather dynamic and ever-changing. Also, it... more
This systematic review provides a comprehensive analysis of the empirical literature on the effectiveness of vocabulary instructional methods for English language learners (ELLs) in prekindergarten through 6th grade settings. Thus, a... more
This paper suggests that reference to phenomenal qualities is best understood as involving iconicity, that is, a passage from sign-vehicle to object that exploits a similarity between the two. This contrasts with a version of the... more
In family interactions, children's proper language use often becomes the focus of conversation. Drawing on a primary corpus of nearly 31 h of video recordings of family interactions from 20 families with at least one child between 3 and 6... more
In this article, the difference in the Platonic perspective and Aristotelian's on the relation between words and objects is discussed briefly in accordance to the status of mind in their viewpoints.
from Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, vol 53, pg 262, 2005 reprinted in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS 48 (2-3), 89, 2006 by Joseph P. Green, Ph.D., Arreed F. Barabasz, Ph.D., Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., & Guy... more
Analogical cognition, extensively researched by Dedre Gentner and her colleagues over the past thirty five years, has been described as the core of human cognition, and it characterizes our use of many words. This research provides... more
Plato’s reflections on Forms have generally been overlooked, in contemporary Philosophy of Language, as a serious resource for illuminating the notion of word meaning. In part, this is due to the influence of Wittgenstein’s critical... more