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Subjectivity Predicts Adjective Ordering Preferences

open access: yesOpen Mind, 2017
From English to Hungarian to Mokilese, speakers exhibit strong ordering preferences in multi-adjective strings: “the big blue box” sounds far more natural than “the blue big box.” We show that an adjective’s distance from the modified noun is predicted ...
Gregory Scontras   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences

open access: yesSemantics and Pragmatics, 2019
Scontras et al. (2017) present experimental evidence demonstrating that the best predictor of adjective ordering preferences in the English noun phrase is the subjectivity of the property named by any given adjective: less subjective adjectives are ...
Gregory Scontras   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Information and learning in processing adjective inflection.

open access: yesCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2019
We investigated the processing of inflected Serbian adjective forms to bring together quantitative linguistic measures from two frameworks - information theory and discrimination learning.
Dušica Filipović Đurđević, P. Milin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

PENERAPAN METODE LEAN UX PADA PERBAIKAN DESAIN USER INTERFACE SITUS WEBSITE COSMO (Studi Kasus : PGAS Solution) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
PGAS Solution merupakan anak perusahaan dari Gas Negara yang memiliki beberapa divisi salah satunya divisi K3PL-P yang memiliki situs website Contractor Health Safety Environment (Hse) Management System atau Cosmo.
Iganingtyas, Gannys Widya
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Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching

open access: yesLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2019
In Papiamento-Dutch bilingual speech, the nominal construction is a potential ‘conflict site’ if there is an adjective from one language and a noun from the other. Adjective position is pre-nominal in Dutch (cf. rode wijn ‘red wine’) but post-nominal in
Leticia Pablos   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Visual Affect Around the World: A Large-scale Multilingual Visual Sentiment Ontology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Every culture and language is unique. Our work expressly focuses on the uniqueness of culture and language in relation to human affect, specifically sentiment and emotion semantics, and how they manifest in social multimedia. We develop sets of sentiment-
Balahur A.   +15 more
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What's in a compound? Review article on Lieber and Štekauer (eds) 2009. 'The Oxford Handbook of Compounding' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Oxford Handbook of Compounding surveys a variety of theoretical and descriptive issues, presenting overviews of compounding in a number of frameworks and sketches of compounding in a number of languages. Much of the book deals with Germanic noun–noun
ANDREW SPENCER   +15 more
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On the role of conjunction in adjective ordering preferences

open access: yesProceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2019
Adjective ordering preferences are robustly attested in English and many unrelated languages. In nominals with multi-adjective strings (e.g., big blue box), chances are the order of the adjectives is non-arbitrary.
C. Rosales, Gregory Scontras
semanticscholar   +1 more source

External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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Most “babies” are “little” and most “problems” are “huge”: Compositional Entailment in Adjective-Nouns

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016
We examine adjective-noun (AN) composition in the task of recognizing textual entailment (RTE). We analyze behavior of ANs in large corpora and show that, despite conventional wisdom, adjectives do not always restrict the denotation of the nouns they ...
Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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