One might have thought that since the role of language is primarily to convey meaning, the
study of meaning would always have been a major focus of attention within the scientific …

Acquiring a first language is a feat of astonishing complexity and speed. By 2 years of age
children have learned many words and can put them togeth-er to form simple sentences …

How are words represented in the mind and woven into sentences? How do children learn
how to use words? Currently there is a tremendous resurgence of interest in lexical …

LANGUAGE, VOLUME 48, NUMBER 2 (1972) semantic description'. Leech uses this quote
on the first page in order to state his purpose, and again on the last page, as he expresses …

Hailed as a" masterpiece"(Nature) and as" the most important book in the sciences of
language to have appeared in many years"(Steven Pinker), Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of …

HAT IS meant by meaning? This is more than a rhetorical question. Problems related to the
meaning of meaning have generated an entire branch of philosophy and a large body of …

I have a modest goal in this paper. The essence of what I have to say can be summarized in
two sentences. The first is that, contrary to the teachings of some mainstream views in …

This chapter reexamines the intriguing question of how 10-to 18-month-old infants get to
know what words mean. The chapter begins with a condensed historical overview of …

When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is
always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be …