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Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1993
This presentation is based on a method for analyzing the verbal flow in text-building behavior. The method is called Perspective Text Analysis (PTA). It locates and makes use of the discontinuities in produced text. Its task is to characterize the mechanism that governs language production and to foster an understanding of the actual processes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Transfer, Language Proficiency, Languages
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 2001
This paper presents the geometric foundation and quantification of Agent-action-Objective (AaO) kinematics. The meaningfulness of studying the flows in verbal expressions through splitting and splicing the strings in a verbal flow related to the fact that free parameters are not needed since it is not required that the presented methodological…
Descriptors: English, Geometry, Natural Language Processing, Speech
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 2002
This paper is a direct continuation of the experimental evaluation of the basic space-hypothesis explored in Real Time Imaging of the Rotation Mechanism Producing Interview-based Language Spaces. This project has required that different pars, the spaces of the A- and O-domains, be related and contrasted. In this paper the focus is on the…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Processes, English, Swedish
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1995
A method for the assessment of competence in language is suggested that allows a new approach to the study of the sources and conditions of competence development. The method builds on the functional analysis of text building behavior, making use of the discontinuities in produced text as the only reliable observations from a scientific point of…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Competence, Educational Assessment, Language Proficiency
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1997
Classical research operations in the cognitive sciences concern categorizations as well as classifications, and have been strongly influenced by nomological approaches. As a consequence, information processing has been explained with reference to syntactic-semantic models. Because of an absence of structural implications, personal interpretations…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1996
Scanator is an extremely valuable tool in the functional analysis of qualitative stability in text building behavior during writing. Scanator also allows for a detailed investigation of subtle changes emerging in the structural relations of emergent novelties. This study focused on the extension of the application of Scanator to one pair of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1993
In contrast to the mass-related verbal flow description given in part I, this report focuses on the cooperative interaction of textual agents and objectives in the production of information flows. Perspective Text Analysis (PTA) is used with the purpose of establishing their physical and functional significance in a non-mass based description of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cluster Analysis, Ecological Factors, Foreign Countries
Bierschenk, Bernhard; Mattsson, Jan – 1987
Modern behavioral research focuses on the possibility of a direct measurement of value preferences, which are conceived as important causal variables of behavior. A method and procedure for the measurement and representation of human value factors is presented. The thesis was studied that valuation results from an active inquiring agent whose…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Cross Cultural Studies
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1987
The exploitation of human and physical resources in the 1950s and 1960s to maximize economic and technological expansion has brought about an enhanced awareness of their negative consequences and of the importance of the environment on human well-being. This study focuses on the need for an assessment of an individual's capacity for living in…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Discriminant Analysis, Environment, Foreign Countries
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1996
A new approach to the study of text building behavior is possible through the application of Scanator. This paper consists of a demonstration of some of its fundamental functions. These are suitable in a study of text building. The basic concepts, expressed through an analysis of a small part of an interview text, derive from a thermodynamic…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Psychology, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries