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Direct linkGagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Past research has found that the judged likelihood of properties of modified nouns (baby ducks have webbed feet) is reduced relative to unmodified nouns (ducks have webbed feet). Experiments 1-3 replicate the modification effect and demonstrate that this effect is obtained when participants make dichotomous decisions about the truth of such…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Inferences, Concept Mapping, Nouns
