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Richards, Meredith Martin – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Ordering preferences for English adjectives in attributive (prenominal) and predicative (postnominal) positions were found to be in general agreement. Semantically congruent and incongruent adjectives were compared regarding ordering preferences and a "borrowing" theory is proposed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Language Research, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedCatton, William R., Jr. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1973
Warns that we cannot mask the facts about man's relation to the biosphere by learning to say the right things to each other. (TO)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Futures (of Society), Language Role, Language Usage
