This study reports preschool educators’ uses of music in educational settings, as well challenges faced incorporating the classroom U.S. Through a multiple-methods approach, data from two focus groups (N1 = 8, N2 6) and survey (N 119) are used to gain insight into how frequently educators US use various types activities their classrooms, for what purposes they do so, face doing so. also sheds l...

A technique for learning new words is discussed. The technique uses expectations generated by the context and an ISA hierarchy to guide the inference process. The learning process uses the context of several independent occurrences of the word to converge on its meaning.

What role does meaning selection play in word comprehension, and what neural systems support this selection process? Most words have multiple meanings and are therefore ambiguous. This is true of both homonymous words (words that have multiple unrelated meanings) and polysemous words (words that have multiple related meanings). The extant evidence indicates that meaning selection is an integral...

Callaham's Russian-English Technical and Scientific Dictionary was consulted for English equivalents of the multiple-valued words. The average number of equivalents for these words was 8.6. Many of these equivalents may be considered as synonyms; when there is a fairly distinct change in meaning, the listing is divided into groups, separated by a semicolon. The average number of such groups, re...