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Concept Abstractness and the Representation of Noun–Noun Combinations

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
Research on noun-noun combinations has been largely focusing on concrete concepts. Three experiments examined the role of concept abstractness in the representation of noun-noun combinations. In Experiment 1, participants provided written interpretations for phrases constituted by nouns of varying degrees of abstractness.
Xu Xu
exaly   +3 more sources

The lexical processing of abstract and concrete nouns

Brain Research, 2009
Recent activation studies have suggested different neural correlates for processing concrete and abstract words. However, the precise localization is far from being defined. One reason for the heterogeneity of these results could lie in the extreme variability of experimental paradigms, ranging from explicit semantic judgments to lexical decision tasks
Papagno, Costanza   +3 more
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Abstract Nouns in the Romance Languages

2022
Abstract Abstract words such as Fr. livraison ‘delivery’, It. fedeltà ‘faithfulness’, Sp. semejanza ‘resemblance’, belong to the word class of nouns. They do not possess materiality and therefore lack sensory perceivability. Within the spectrum of nouns, abstract nouns are located on the opposite side of proper names; between them ...
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