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Acquisition of adjective meanings : a lexical semantic approach
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1992.
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Psycholinguistic Studies of Adjective Ordering in Children and Adults
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Revealing Socially Undesirable Information: A Comparison of Bipolar Adjective Scaling Methods
… exam, the present study examined two bipolar adjective scaling methods (paired-comparison and semantic differential) to determine scaling effects on test taker reports of socially undesirable information on a self-report personality measure of conscientiousness. Results indicate that no …
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A Study of the Determinants of Preferred Adjective Order in English
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The landscape adjective check list: a descriptive technique for landscape assessment
… observers and places described. The Landscape Adjective Check List (LACL), first developed by Kenneth Craik (1971), and modeled after the Gough Adjective Check List (1960) used for personality assessment, was administered to a group of 150 college students. Each was instructed to rate a series …
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A corpus-based analysis of adjective suffix rivalry in the english language /
The subject of this research paper is adjectives ending in -ic/-ical, -ive/-ory and -able/-ible. The aim is to analyse adjective doublets in the English Web Corpus and the OED. The objectives to achieve the aim include exploring theoretical insights into adjectives and suffix rivalry, exploring the …
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Does L1 transfer influence Chinese speakers' intuition of adjective ordering in English
… is to look into the L1 influence on English adjective ordering among Chinese ESL learners. We hypothesized that if there was a certain adjective ordering ""rule"" existing in both Chinese and English, it would facilitate Chinese ESL learners' performance on producing such order in English. …
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Distributional semantic phrases vs. semantic distributional nonsense: Adjective Modification in Compositional Distributional Semantics
… compositional distributional semantics to model adjective modification. I present three studies that explore the degree to which semantic intuitions are grounded in the distributional representations of adjective-noun phrases, as well as provide insight into various linguistic phenomena by …
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Evaluative meanings and disciplinary values: a corpus-based study of adjective patterns in research articles in applied linguistics and business studies
… writing, focusing in particular on the use of adjective patterns followed by prepositions. The analysis proceeds through a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of these patterns in two large corpora of authentic texts. The analysis focuses not only on the specific adjectives found in …
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La Sintaxis del Neutro de Materia en Asturiano: Especificidad, Genericidad y la Posicion del Adjetivo
… masculine (–u) and feminine (–a) genders in its adjectives, but there is also a morpheme that represents the neuter (–o). Related to this morphological characteristic, Asturian exhibits what is standardly called the mass neuter phenomenon. In order for the mass neuter to be present in a …
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Gender and number agreement processing in Spanish
… of agreement between a subject and predicative adjective in Spanish. The basic methodology often employed in experiments in the literature on subject-verb number agreement was used-participants saw an adjective and a sentence preamble consisting of a subject head noun and a prepositional …
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"Who endorses ""think manager-think male""? A within-person examination of masculine and feminine leader stereotypes"
… 1973). In the TMTM paradigm, a common set of adjectives is rated by different groups of participants for how well they characterize men in general, women in general, and successful middle managers; then, correlations are calculated at the adjective level of analysis, between different groups. …
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Component Processes in Impression Formation
… of hypothetical stimulus persons described by adjective sets that varied in set size, favorableness and consistency (among descriptors). Three between-subjects factors--intrastimulus order within the adjective set (serial position), instructional set regarding the relative importance of …
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L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
… to when a given noun that is preceded by an adjective with the same gender marking (e.g., in Italian, bella casa "beautiful <sub>Feminine Adjective</sub> house <sub>Feminine Noun</sub>") is recognized more quickly than if the noun is preceded by an adjective that does not have a gender …
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Counseling-consultation with gifted adolescents and their parents: effects on self acceptance and adjustment of the gifted
… of the California Psychological Inventory, Adjective Check List, and writing sample were determined in an a priori manner as being appropriate measures of the dependent variables. Data was analyzed by an analysis of variance, Bartlett's-Box F test of homogeneity of variance, and Scheffe's …
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Performance measures and subjective evaluations for two color displays
… consisted of 20 five-interval bipolar adjective scales and a forced choice rating on eight display parameters. An analysis of variance procedure and post-hoc Newman-Keuls analyses were employed in the analyses of the performance and subjective bipolar adjective scale data; the forced …
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Transformations for linguistic steganography
… transformations — lexical substitution, adjective deletion and word ordering — which are able to generate alternatives for a cover text. For each transformation, we propose different transformation checkers in order to certify the naturalness of a modified sentence. Our lexical …
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An Adjectival Interface for procedural content generation
… the content that they wish to create by using adjectives. Procedural models are typically controlled by complex parameters and often require expert technical knowledge. Since people communicate with each other using language, an adjectival interface to the creation of procedural content is a …
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