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Murphy, Gregory L.; Wisniewski, Edward J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
E. J. Wisniewski and G. L. Murphy (see record EJ689195) suggested that the apparent effects of relation frequency in C. L. Gagne and E. J. Shoben's (1997) conceptual combination experiments could be explained by differences between the familiarity and plausibility of their stimuli (noun-noun phrases). However, C. L. Gagne and T. L. Spalding argued…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Familiarity, Nouns, Predictor Variables
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Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr. – Library Quarterly, 1983
Investigates vocabulary of the humanities by analyzing terms used as entry points in leading encyclopedias and dictionaries in humanities. Categories that distinguish entry terms by precision and potential for effectiveness in subject access are proposed and a sample of entry terms is classified into these categories. Thirty-five sources are…
Descriptors: Classification, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Humanities
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Clahsen, Harald – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Found dissociations between regular and irregular inflectional processes in the formation of English past tenses, German noun plurals, and German participles. Children's inflectional errors include using regular patterns for irregular forms. Some linguistic processes, such as forming compound words, are sensitive to the distinction between regular…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Patterns, German