Proper Names as the Prototypical Nominal Category
Names, 2007 Proper names are the prototypical, unmarked nouns; they refer rather than describe or predicate as do common nouns. Proper names systematically appear in close appositional structures of such types as the poet Burns, Hurricane Edna, Fido the dog, the ...
Willy Van Langendonck
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Survival processing versus self-reference : a memory advantage following descriptive self-referential encoding [PDF]
, 2017 Previous research has shown that rating words for their relevance to a survival scenario leads to better retention of the words than rating them for self-reference. Past studies have, however, relied exclusively on an autobiographical self-reference task
Anderson, Rachel J. +3 more
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ABSTRACT NOUNS IN THE SPEECH OF THE EMGLISHMEN (BASED ON FICTION WORKS AND BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS)
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2015 The research aimed at studying the use of abstract nouns in the Englishmen’s speech from the standpoint of sociolinguistics. The article introduces a new, sociolinguistic, approach to research of abstract nouns; it is also the first time they are studied
Natalia Veniaminovna Khokhlova
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NdeN et acquisition d’informations lexicales à partir du Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé
Corela, 2007 For NLP systems, a major issue consists in resolving reference in order to find the themes of documents. In this article, we present a way to find semantic informations to resolve anaphors which use a referential expression of the form NdeN and an ...
Laurence Kister, Evelyne Jacquey
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Maternal Child-Directed Speech Toward Children With Infantile Spasm or West Syndrome. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Background Maternal child‐directed speech (MCDS) plays a critical role in early language and communicative development, yet little is known about how it adapts to neurodevelopmental conditions such as Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome (WS), particularly when co‐occurring with intellectual disability (WID) or autism spectrum disorder (WASD).
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COMBINATORIAL SET OF LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL CLASSES OF NOUNS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020 The article focuses on the changes of nouns, the lexico-grammatical features of which make it impossible to refer them to a specific lexico-grammatical class.
Mariya L. Lapteva, Natalya V. Lukina
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Associative Experiment on the Material of Abstractness / Concreteness Ratings: a Comparative Aspect
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsAn important parameter in the studies of associative fields is the characterization of words by concreteness and Abstractness. In a recently published article we analyzed associations to 100 Abstract and concrete stimuli.
Yuliya A. Volskaya
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THE SPECIFICITY OF CORRELATION CATEGORY REALIZATION IN THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2014 The article studies the German article in functional aspect taking into account the conception of the grammatical category of correlation / non-correlation, proposed by L.R. Zinder and T.V. Stroeva. The author describes the specificity of the correlation
Goryunova Yuliya Nikolaevna
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Quantity judgment studies in Yudja (Tupi): Acquisition and interpretation of nouns
Glossa, 2018 This paper explores the acquisition path and interpretation of substance and object nouns in Yudja, a Brazilian indigenous language. Based on quantity judgment tasks (Barner & Snedeker 2005), we show that children accept both cardinal and non ...
Suzi Lima
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Distributional Interaction of Concreteness and Abstractness in Verb–Noun Subcategorisation [PDF]
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Short Papers, 2019 In recent years, both cognitive and computational research has provided empirical analyses of contextual co-occurrence of concrete and abstract words, partially resulting in inconsistent pictures. In this work we provide a more fine-grained description of the distributional nature in the corpus-based interaction of verbs and nouns within ...
Frassinelli, Diego +1 more
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