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If a tree had a knee, where would it be? Children's performance on simple spatial metaphors
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This research is concerned with the development of metaphorical ability, conceived of as the ability to preserve conceptual relationships across changes in actual content. This view of metaphorical ability does not distinguish between a...
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Testing The Psychological Reality of a Representational Model
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A research program is described in which a particular representational format for meaning is tested as broadly as possible. In this format, developed by the LNR research group at The University of California at San Diego, verbs are repr...
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Semantic Integration at the Level of Verb Meaning. Technical Report No. 114.
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Subjects heard stories which contained general verbs (e.g., "give"). For half of the subjects, additional semantic information was included in each story. The hypothesis was that this additional information would combine with the meanin...
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Problems and techniques of text-analysis
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represenfations of real-world objects. (Informal observations suggest that 15-month-old infants can do this.) In BABAR, this problem arose with reference to the taxicab and hotel scenes. For instance, on .pages 6-7 there is the followin...
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The Structure of Analogical Models in Science.
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Abstract : Analogical models can be powerful aids to reasoning, as when light is explained in terms of water waves; or they can be misleading, as when chemical processes are thought of in terms of life processes such as putrefaction. Th...
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An Educational Technique to Encourage Practice with High-Level Aspects of Texts.
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The Story Maker is a teaching device that allows children to create stories by choosing options from a set of alretdy-written story segments. This device (11 provides an active language experience,that allows children to. construct stor...
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