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Direct linkGagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The present experiments investigate the influence of modifier relation frequency and discourse context on the interpretation of novel noun-noun phrases (as measured by both the ease of interpretation and the types of interpretations that are provided). We assess whether people access knowledge about the relations with which the modifier is…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Concept Formation, Nouns, Phrase Structure
