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Law And Linguistics: Is There Common Ground?, William D. Popkin Jan 1995

Law And Linguistics: Is There Common Ground?, William D. Popkin

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Desperately Seeking Science, Francis J. Mootz Iii Jan 1995

Desperately Seeking Science, Francis J. Mootz Iii

Scholarly Works

In this commentary I offer a lawyer’s view of what law and linguistics interdisciplinary studies might mean for legal practice, as well as a legal theorist’s view of what importance they may hold for jurisprudence. I do not pretend to have more than cursory knowledge about linguistics, and so my remarks about what linguistics scholars might gain from an interdisciplinary exchange necessarily will be brief general.

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The Efficacy Of Scaffolding Strategies In Holistic Language Intervention On Language And Phonologically Delayed Children., Monica Lynne Bradshaw Jan 1995

The Efficacy Of Scaffolding Strategies In Holistic Language Intervention On Language And Phonologically Delayed Children., Monica Lynne Bradshaw

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the efficacy of scaffolding strategies within holistic language intervention with six language and phonologically delayed preschool children. The scaffolding condition was compared to two experimental controls using either wh-questions or print awareness techniques. It was hypothesizsd that the use of scaffolding strategies would result in greater semantic displacement, syntactic complexity, and phonological complexity than the use of either the wh-questions or print awareness controls. Efficacy of the conditions was measured by (a) semantic levels, (b) mean length of utterance, and (c) percent of words produced correctly. An alternating treatment was employed in the single-subject study. The subjects …

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Linguistic And Cultural Immersion And Second Language Acquisition: International Young Student Exchange., Rosita Mira Maristany Jan 1995

Linguistic And Cultural Immersion And Second Language Acquisition: International Young Student Exchange., Rosita Mira Maristany

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The trend in foreign language learning reflects a move from "fragmented" language to "whole" language (Rigg 1991). It includes the individual as well as the social aspect of language acquisition; and the integration of language and culture. Student international exchange programs provide the ideal atmosphere for "whole" language learning and the integration of language and culture in total language and cultural immersion. Most research in international student exchange programs described the organization of the program or addressed a particular variable. There is a need for integrative "whole" research rather than "fragmented" research. The method chosen as most appropriate for this …

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The Effect Of Developmental Factors On The Use Of An Electronic Communication Device., Judith Danute Oxley Jan 1995

The Effect Of Developmental Factors On The Use Of An Electronic Communication Device., Judith Danute Oxley

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study addressed a poorly understood variable of voice output communication aid (VOCA) use, namely mnemonic development. Forty children without disabilities, aged from 49 to 60 months, were required to use an IntroTalker (Prentke Romich Company) to participate in a one-on-one storybook reading task with the investigator. They were provided with sixteen messages to use during a scripted reading of The Three Bears. Children could use a trained verbal elaboration strategy or generate their own methods to retrieve messages. Immediate and delayed responses of children under two training methods were compared, and the contribution of developmental factors, including metamemory, were …

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Performing The Community, Telling The Self: Storytelling By Members Of A Group Home For Men With Mental Retardation., Sharon Elizabeth Croft Jan 1995

Performing The Community, Telling The Self: Storytelling By Members Of A Group Home For Men With Mental Retardation., Sharon Elizabeth Croft

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study uses an ethnographic approach to examine the stories told by members of a group home for men with mental retardation. The author contends that the culture of the group home works to constrain how group home members interact within this community. The author argues, however, that despite the cultural constraints, the men use storytelling to establish their individuality, even though the stories themselves, in their content and in the performance of their telling, often reify cultural constraints and their cultural constructions. The author recounts how she, as ethnographer, interacted within this community. After identifying, describing, and analyzing eight …

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Contextual Influences On Real-Time Processing Of Linguistic Stimuli: Traditional And Dynamical Approaches, Joanna Raczaszek Jan 1995

Contextual Influences On Real-Time Processing Of Linguistic Stimuli: Traditional And Dynamical Approaches, Joanna Raczaszek

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This work examines contextual influences on processing of linguistic stimuli. The traditional (symbolic) models of context influences are reviewed and their shortcomings pointed out. The dynamical approach, recently emerging in the area of behavioral sciences, is suggested as a viable alternative. Two studies follow. In the first one we use the case of perception of ambiguous sentences to show that perception of linguistic stimuli is the outcome of an underlying dynamical process. Thus it may be better described in dynamical terms, employing notions such as multistability and differential coherence of patterns, than in the traditional, symbolic framework. The second study …

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Split Wit Definitives, Howard Richler Nov 1994

Split Wit Definitives, Howard Richler

Word Ways

The following is an outgrowth of two articles I wrote for National Lampoon in 1990 entitled "Split Definitive". It was thus titled because it featured word definitions that depend upon the splitting of words to effect the definitions. For example, romantic was defined as "Conturion's twitch" because it can be divided into Roman and tic. Similarly, heathen was defined as "barbecued chicken" and it breaks down into heat and hen.

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A Challenge Answered, Leonard Gordon Nov 1994

A Challenge Answered, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

In the August Word Ways I challenged readers to find the smallest rectangle in which one can pack the 37 different US presidential surnames with at least one name in each of the eight possible directions (but connectivity not required). My answer to this challenge is shown below, an 18x12 = 216 rectangle in which FILLMORE does not connect to nay other; each diagonal direction has a single representative.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 4 Nov 1994

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Games On Word Configurations, Jeremiah Farrell Nov 1994

Games On Word Configurations, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

The rules of our proposed games are very simple. Two persons alternately draw letter titles until one of them is first able to form a word and wins. To avoid arguments, we supply for each game its own dictionary of allowed words. To make the games more interesting, we have certain symmetry demands on dictionary word lists and will call such lists configurations.

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Getting It All Together, Leonard Gordon Nov 1994

Getting It All Together, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

Recently, several Word Ways contributors have suggested relationships between wordplay and chemistry (see "The Linguistic Genetic Message" Feb 1992, and the note on The Scientist Speculates in Feb 1994). Although none of the ideas appealed to me, I found the concept intriguing, and devised something of my own. In this article, I model protein chemistry wit ha combination of two different types of directed word chains. In addition, constructions from the combination chaining leads to interesting logology.

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Colloquy Nov 1994

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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Balanced Words, Susan Thorpe Nov 1994

Balanced Words, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

'Balanced Words' anagrams to 'An ABCDE's World'. It is certainly that! Ironically, the word 'balanced' is not itself a balanced word, but INTRODUCTION and CONTRARILY are. (In this article, words in capital letters are balanced.) So, what is a balanced word? When the sum of the letters of a word (using A=1, B=2 etc.) is divided by the number of letters in the word, the result is the 'average letter weight' of that word which, in the case of balanced words, is 13.5, halfway through the alphabet between M and N.

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Clipped Words Nov 1994

Clipped Words

Word Ways

The increasing practice of comitting large amounts of text, such as dictionaries and thesauri, to computer-based utilities has produced a number of text-compression techniques for reducing the amount of storage space. There are several industry-standard-file-compression utilities in the public domain, any of which may be used to condense the space requirements of text files. My WORDS-WORTH files, now containing over 508,000 dictionary words and phrases, were first processed in this fashion, resulting in roughly a 50% saving in disk space. However, files treated in this way need in the majority of cases to be restored to full length in order …

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The Morristown Fables: Part 3, Peter Newby Nov 1994

The Morristown Fables: Part 3, Peter Newby

Word Ways

"Tuesday" said the hen perched on the mantelpiece.

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Anagramania, Charles Suhor Nov 1994

Anagramania, Charles Suhor

Word Ways

Some lovers of language are merely smitten, others are outright crazy. I'm in the former category, so I devised an even dozen anagrams for the word anagram and let it go at that.

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Half-Palindromic Words, Mark Saltveit Nov 1994

Half-Palindromic Words, Mark Saltveit

Word Ways

I have never understood all of the interest in finding palindromic words. It requires no imagination; they just sit there in front of the reader, like a large gold nugget on the sidewalk. And, like gold nuggets, all but the most hidden and obscure ones have long since been grabbed.

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Kickshaws, David Morice Nov 1994

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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Mixed Reviews, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1994

Mixed Reviews, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In the February 1993 issue, Games Magazine editor Will Shortz announced a new puzzle contest based on a Word Ways idea: anagram a movie title to form a concise review of the film (for example, "oh. OK" for Hook, "I, trash" for Ishtar, or "non-cinema" for Encino Man). More than 700 readers submitted several thousand entries for the prize, $1000 worth of puzzles and books from the Bits & Pieces catalog; it was awarded to James Sempsrott of Raleigh NC who suggested "not worth a fire engine" for The Towering Inferno.

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Caulfield And Copperfield, Robert F. Fleissner Nov 1994

Caulfield And Copperfield, Robert F. Fleissner

Word Ways

Surely a major irony of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is that its would-be hero, though openly disdaining what he calls all that "David Copperfield" kind of nonsense on the very first page, is in fact described in terms of the self-development novel as stemming to a large extent from Dickens. What is more, though he repeatedly exhibits revulsion at what he dubs the "phony" type of individual, he himself turns out to be the biggest fake of them all.

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Cheater's Palindromes: Part 4, Walter Fretlaw Nov 1994

Cheater's Palindromes: Part 4, Walter Fretlaw

Word Ways

David Jennings Morice is the fourth of the Kickshavian school of Cheater's palindromists and, essentially, the pioneer of the concept of utilizing obscure terminology in this form of creative construction. David is the Cheater's playwright and all quotes are from his short-short-lived play which was first performed in Iowa City in 1990.

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Mammary Vowelindromes, Jeff Grant Nov 1994

Mammary Vowelindromes, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

The association between vowelindromes and the female breast, noted by Stephen Chism in the August 1993 Word Ways, is even more widespread than he realizes. Besides PAP and TIT, both part of the vowelindromes PAP-PEP-PIP-POP-PUP and TAT-TET-TIT-TOT-TUT, there exist BUB (a woman's breast) and DUD (a teat). The words in the corresponding vowelindromes BAB-BEB-BIB-BOB-BUB can all be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and DAD-DED-DID-DOD-DUD in the English Dialect Dictionary.

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Playing The Numbers Game, Al Greengold, Richard Lederer Nov 1994

Playing The Numbers Game, Al Greengold, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

The joys of word play abound all around, even in numbers. We often view figures as coldly symbolic rather than vibrantly verbal, but numerals really can be a lot of fun when we look at them logologically.

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Answers And Solutions Nov 1994

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.

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Back Cover Nov 1994

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

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On Lexical And Syntactic Processing Of Bangla Language By Computer., Probal Sengupta Dr. Aug 1994

On Lexical And Syntactic Processing Of Bangla Language By Computer., Probal Sengupta Dr.

Doctoral Theses

A distinctive intelligent trait of human beings is the ability to carry out meaningful communication through language. The communication may be direct as in spoken conversation or indirect as in written form, through the audio-visual media, etc. Linguistic ability in humans have fascinated scholars ever since man first learnt to use language. Linguistics, the branch of study involved in studying the nature of human linguistic communication, is perhaps as old as language itself. The invention of the computer added a new dimension to linguistics. Making the computer emu- late human linguistic behaviour was taken up as a challenge by computer …

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Gag Me With A Spoonerism, Richard Lederer Aug 1994

Gag Me With A Spoonerism, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

Perhaps you know somebody (and that somebody could be you!) who occasionally says pascetti or spaghetti, aminal for animal, and revelant for relevant. Each of these mispronunciations bespeaks a tendency to anticipate and, hence, to switch sounds between words.

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Getting Around In Wordland, Leonard Gordon Aug 1994

Getting Around In Wordland, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

Over the years, Word Ways has presented several articles on word chains and networks. It was obvious that the networks could be developed into mazes, but I, for one, did nothing about it because I considered mazes kid stuff. However, John Harris sent me a copy of a maze by Robert Abbott that appeared in the May 1991 Discover magazine which is not kid stuff.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 3 Aug 1994

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 3

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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