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Comprehending Dirty Word Descriptions.
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Jay, Timothy B. – Language and Speech, 1981
Examines how one interprets and reacts to dirty-word descriptors. Subjects judged how much they would like a fictitious person described with dirty and non-dirty adjective pairs. Liking was influenced by: (1) semantic interpretation, (2) intrinsicalness of the adjective for the person described, and (3) contextual relations between speaker and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Usage, Pragmatics
The Use of Formulation Frames in Syntax Perception.
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Leiser, David – Language and Speech, 1981
A source of regularity in sentence construction is the recurrent use of certain fixed syntactic formats in explaining, describing, etc. Subjects exploit these regularities in sentence perception. An experiment on the perception of "perverse" sentences shows that listeners assimilate some of the features of sentences to "formulation frames."…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Processing, Language Usage