Re "Begging to Differ: Words and Meaning" (news article, Aug. 22) and "Getting to the Source of the 'Death Panel' Rumor" (front page, Aug. 14): I support helping the uninsured, but a provision in the House health bill (H.R. 3200) would use Medicare reimbursement to coerce elderly people to undergo the kind of end-of-life consultation the government deems appropriate.
Formal and informal English differ in word choice, word usage, and grammatical structures.
Sacred words differ from ordinary words in that they are believed either to possess and convey spiritual and magical powers or to be the means through which a divine being or other sacred reality is revealed in phrases and sentences full of power and truth.
Only those measures in which valenced words differ from neutral words were reliable predictors of lexical decision RT.
Each time the verse is played the words differ, whereas the words for the chorus stay the same throughout.
By contrast, the presentation of new words following the same rule of the language of exposure (rule-words) did not differ from word presentations.
Finally, we test whether the effects of emotional valence differ for words specifically referring to emotions (e.g., fear, love, shame) versus words that are only valenced (e.g., prison, justice, cheat).
Today that dispute was intensified by comments from the White House and from Congress, and by the release of documents from both sides in the nightlong negotiations over the child, documents that hardly differed in words but were separated by a chasm of conflicting interpretations.
The DCM analyses below therefore examined the relationship between lateralization and interhemispheric connectivity and determined whether this relationship differed for words and pictures.
However, formulaic and non-formulaic lyrics did not differ in word frequency [ t 34) < 0.1, not significant (NS ], word frequency variance [ F 1, 34) = 0.7, NS], syllable frequency [ t 34) = 0.5, NS], number of consonants and syntactic phrase structure.
