The later development of an early-emerging system: the curious case of the Polish genitive [PDF]
, 2008 Eighty Polish children and adolescents aged from 6 to 18 participated in a nonce word inflection experiment testing their productivity with the two genitive masculine endings, -a and -u, and their sensitivity to the distributional and semantic factors ...
Dabrowska, Ewa
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An ALE meta-analytical review of the neural correlates of abstract and concrete words
Scientific Reports, 2021 Several clinical studies have reported a double dissociation between abstract and concrete concepts, suggesting that they are processed by at least partly different networks in the brain.
Madalina Bucur, Costanza Papagno
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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]
, 2013 There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal " hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality ...
Hoffman, Paul +2 more
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Enhancing automatic text summarisation by resolving anaphora and identifying abstract and concrete nouns [PDF]
Revista Română de Informatică și AutomaticăThe primary goal of text summarisation is to distil the most important details and turn them into a brief version that still captures the source material’s main points.
Sanah Nashir SAYYED, Namrata MAHENDER
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Clustering, Hierarchical Organization, and the Topography of Abstract and Concrete Nouns
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The empirical study of language has historically relied heavily upon concrete word stimuli. By definition, concrete words evoke salient perceptual associations that fit well within feature-based, sensorimotor models of word meaning.
Joshua eTroche +2 more
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Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Nouns in human languages mostly profile concrete and abstract entities. But how much eventive information can be found in nouns? Will such eventive information found in sensory nouns have anything to do with the cognitive representation of the basic ...
Yin Zhong +2 more
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Languages, 2022 In this paper, we investigate zero-derived nouns based on irregular verbs in Greek. This is an under-explored area in Greek morpho-syntax, and in this paper, we will make three main contributions.
Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou
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, 2020 The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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Polish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity [PDF]
, 2006 Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively.
Dabrowska, Ewa, Szczerbinski, Marcin
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The derivation of diminutives from abstract noun bases in Bulgarian [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2013 The paper reviews the formal and semantic characteristics of the formation of diminutives in Bulgarian, where the process affects nouns, adjectives, numerals, adverbs, verbs and pronouns.
Nicolova Ruselina L.
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