The Encyclopedia of Children’s Health is composed of in-depth articles that cover numerous medical situations, disorders, and pediatric ailments, and incorporates a section about behavioral, physical, and cognitive growth. These have been described by Morris (1955) as syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics of the English language (See Appendix A). Table 2 outlines the complicated interaction between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features that occurs when college students attempt to verbalize or interpret mathematical rules and ideas in English.

One view is that of the linguist Noam Chomsky in what he calls the human language acquisition system —a mechanism which permits a person to recreate appropriately the principles and certain other characteristics of language used by speakers acro...