WORD MEANING BLINDNESS REVISITED

Word Meaning Blindness Revisited.

Lambon Ralph, Sage, and Ellis (1996) described a patient, JO, who had impaired understanding of written words in the presence of normal comprehension of objects and spoken words.She was able to recognise letters and could differentiate written words from nonwords in lexical decision tasks. JO's ability to read aloud all types of words and nonwords was also intact. Although JO's understanding wi...

Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning

The lexicon has long been assumed to be the source of all conceptual content expressed by sentences. Syntactic structures have correspondingly been seen only as providing instructions for the assembly of the concepts expressed by words. Under this view, sentences have meaning, but the syntactic structures which sentences instantiate do not. This paper challenges this view: it uses the phenomeno...

Congenital Word-Blindness

The importance of this condition lies in the fact that the cases are by no means uncommon, and that if the condition is recognized the child is saved much misery and the parents spared the expense and trouble of endeavouring to educate a child who through no fault of his own is incapable of achieving the results that are expected of him. The child will often develop an inferiority complex, as h...

Bertrand’s Paradox Revisited: More Lessons about that Ambiguous Word, Random

The Bertrand paradox question is: “Consider a unit-radius circle for which the length of a side of an inscribed equilateral triangle equals 3 . Determine the probability that the length of a ‘random’ chord of a unit-radius circle has length greater than 3 .” Bertrand derived three different ‘correct’ answers, the correctness depending on interpretation of the word, random. Here we employ geomet...

[The meaning of color blindness in traffic].