ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses methods used for analyzing conceptual structures and miscellaneous findings regarding these structures. The pseudocleft construction permits probing the sensory-motor content of conceptual structures. The chapter also presents evidence, consisting of the temporal stability of repeated speech segments, that the sensory-motor ideas of Location, State, and Event can and do function as the basis of speech programming. The temporal stability of the different sensory-motor segments in speech output provides evidence of speech programs based on sensory-motor representations. The 'maximal' skill of labeling sensory-motor segments consists almost entirely in distinguishing Events and States. A hierarchical clustering method, in which constituents are directly related to each other, permits reconstructing some of the effects of syntactic devices. The primary definition of a basic relation depends on whether orientation-changing syntactic devices must apply in order to achieve the opposite orientation of the basic relation. It is possible to speak of entire languages as having an orientation tending to be operative or receptive.
