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Discusses aspects of semantic structure that have significance for cognitive psychology: (a) developments within the framework of transformational grammar that provide a semantic conception of syntactic relations, and (b) the structure of lexical meaning, especially the idea of semantic features as components of lexical meaning. While the theoretical status of semantic features is presently weak, there is some evidence that such components function in long-term memory. However, in addition to methodological problems, limitations on semantic features, as they have been previously conceived, are suggested by the possibility of semantic deep structure and the requirements of referential processes. (97 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
