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Sentential Context and the Interpretation of Familiar Open-Compounds and Novel Modifier-Noun Phrases
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Direct linkGagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L.; Gorrie, Melissa C. – Language and Speech, 2005
Two experiments investigated the influence of sentential context on the relative ease of deriving a particular meaning for novel and familiar compounds. Experiment 1 determined which of two possible meanings was preferred for a set of novel phrases. Experiment 2 used both novel (e.g., "brain sponge") and familiar compounds (e.g., "bug spray"). The…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Familiarity, Nouns
Gagne, 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
