From owner-cse727-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sun Mar 18 18:26:40 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l2IMQelc001893 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:26:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l2IMMeMj021924 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:22:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 3834 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2007 22:22:40 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 18 Mar 2007 22:22:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 3796 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2007 22:22:39 -0000 Received: from defer.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.58) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 18 Mar 2007 22:22:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 26396 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2007 22:22:33 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by defer.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 18 Mar 2007 22:22:33 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3908656 for CSE727-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:22:33 -0400 Delivered-To: CSE727-SP07-LIST@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 25309 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2007 22:12:33 -0000 Received: from mailscan5.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.137) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 18 Mar 2007 22:12:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 23772 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2007 22:12:32 -0000 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (64.233.182.186) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 18 Mar 2007 22:12:32 -0000 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so832033nfc for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.91.15 with SMTP id o15mr6334516qbb.1174255950201; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.235.15 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:12:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0bb2721fcbc4d65d X-UB-Relay: (nf-out-0910.google.com) X-PM-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <4e4445330703181512u71c35e2flf0e765648abc7a4c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:12:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Paul M. Heider" Sender: "CVA Seminar, Spring 2007" From: "Paul M. Heider" Subject: CSE727: jenkins dixon 1983 -- not Really Essential(TM) To: CSE727-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (nf-out-0910.google.com) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1335; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2866/Sun Mar 18 17:32:16 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 910 The lit review of vocabulary education was quite helpful. I was most intrigued by the features (starting on pg. 50) that influenced the "quality" of context. I'm curious how many of them can be automated. Several of the studies used "good" or "rich" contexts. Was that always a euphamism for a subordinate clause definition and/or direct comparison with a synonym (e.g. "altercation...not argument")? I was a little disappointed that on-line processing was completely ignored. Page 238 and 257 (at the top and bottom, respectively) both leave big gaps that could be filled with on-line morphological decomposition. Sure, Jenkins and Dixon mention teaching of morphology could help but they don't say it could be a factor in vocabulary "acquisition." Arguably, since it is on-line, you haven't actually acquired the word. Does that mean we should differentiate between stored and understood vocabulary?