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Vecchi, Eva M.; Marelli, Marco; Zamparelli, Roberto; Baroni, Marco – Cognitive Science, 2017
"Sophisticated senator" and "legislative onion." Whether or not you have ever heard of these things, we all have some intuition that one of them makes much less sense than the other. In this paper, we introduce a large dataset of human judgments about novel adjective-noun phrases. We use these data to test an approach to…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Nouns, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Feist, Michele I. – Cognitive Science, 2008
What aspects of spatial relations influence speakers' choice of locative? This article presents a study of static spatial descriptions from 24 languages. The study reveals two kinds of spatial terms evident cross-linguistically: specific spatial terms and general spatial terms (GSTs). Whereas specific spatial terms--including English…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Languages, Multidimensional Scaling, Form Classes (Languages)