Abstract
The problem of meaning has not yet been solved in psychology. Books on psycholinguistics generally offer several proposals [e.g. Clark and Clark (1977); Foss and Hakes (1978); Glucksberg and Danks (1975)], but none of them is really satisfactory, and psychologists who want to study the meaning of words or their development in childhood are thus in a difficult situation. Our relative ignorance of what word meaning actually is increases the probability of following a futile path in studying the meaning of single words or their development. The aim of this contribution is, therefore, to sketch some of the lines of research on word meaning and word processing that seem essential and promising for future work. It is useful to look at the processing of words in order to learn more about what their meaning might be.
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