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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, Lisa, Paulson
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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 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, there are common nouns ...
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Resemblance nominalism and abstract nouns

Analysis, 2015
This is a reply to Byeong-Uk Yi who argued that my Resemblance Nominalism fails to account for sentences featuring abstract nouns like (1) Carmine resembles vermillion more than it resembles French Blue and (2) Scarlet is a colour. I accept his criticism of what I said in my book on Resemblance Nominalism about (1), but then I go on to show how (1) can
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Abstract nouns and resemblance nominalism

Analysis, 2014
In developing resemblance nominalism, Rodriguez-Pereyra attempts to meet the challenge that truths involving abstract nouns pose to the doctrine. He holds that one can render sentences containing abstract nouns without invoking attributes and defends this view by giving nominalistic sentences that express the truthmakers of two such sentences: Scarlet
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A vagueness based analysis of abstract nouns

2020
The count/mass distinction is a widely discussed topic across languages and linguistic theories have covered a great part of peculiarities which appear in relation to this phe- nomenon. Abstract nouns have often been left out of consideration, possibly due to the fact that their reference is abstract and the application of some relevant features of ...
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On the Study of Abstract Nouns in Turkic Languages

American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research
The article examines the views of scholars on the study of abstract nouns in Turkic languages. It discusses the formation of nouns, the affixes used to form abstract nouns, the classification of nouns according to their meanings, and the study of abstract nouns in general.
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CONCRETIZATION OF ABSTRACT AND MATERIAL NOUNS

Bulletin of Osh State University, 2021
Zhanyl Abdazovna Kaldybaeva   +1 more
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