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Learning Maximum Absolute Meaning through Reasoning about Speaker Intentions
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Lee, Crystal; Kurumada, Chigusa – Language Learning, 2021
Three experiments investigated adult learners' acquisition of a novel adjective. In English and other languages, meanings of some gradable adjectives are said to include an absolute standard of comparison (e.g., "full" means completely filled with content). However, actual usage is often imprecise, where a maximum absolute standard of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Adult Learning, Language Usage, Semantics