"word association", vocabulary acquisition and neural network s

[Udut, Kenneth]

Thank you, Danko!  I will look this book up.  [I hope I
can find it!]



           Kenneth Udut
Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM

|-----Original Message-----
|From: LRC staff [mailto:lrc at mrminc.com]
|Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 3:46 PM
|To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
|Subject: Re: "word association", vocabulary acquisition and neural
|networks
|
|
|Back in the 1970s there was a dictionary called Slovar'
|associatyvnych norm
|russkogo jazyka (or something like that). I was based on
|psycholinguistic
|experimets on free associations. The dictionary provides the
|descriptive
|statistics from the experiment.
|
|Best,
|
|Danko Sipka
|
|>Question which may sound silly:
|>
|>Has there ever been a study done
|>which takes an 'average' of
|>"word associations" and used this
|>information for teaching related
|>vocabulary?
|>
|>Example:
|>
|>I'm learning Russian, and
|>I would like to see the
|>product of a native Russian's
|>(or a whole bunch of native
|>Russians) 'word association' -
|>something like "happy",
|>"sad", "mad", "glad", "sunny",
|>"warm", "cold", "old", "bold",
|>"mold", "mildew", "fungus" might
|>be in English...
|>
|>There might be some words
|>which rhyme, other words which
|>are opposites, other words which
|>are similar in meaning, some
|>words which are the same
|>amount of syllables, etc.
|>
|>I'm rather pedestrian, as far
|>as language acquisition goes,
|>but I tend to be "right brained",
|>as they say, and am a big fan
|>of the neural network concept of
|>how the brain is mapped, and
|>stores information.
|>
|>If anybody knows of anything
|>like this, I would be quite
|>interested.
|>
|>Thoughts?  Information?
|>
|>-Kenneth
|>kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
|
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