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| Richards, Meredith Martin | 1 |
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Richards, Meredith Martin – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Ordering preferences for English adjectives in attributive (prenominal) and predicative (postnominal) positions were found to be in general agreement. Semantically congruent and incongruent adjectives were compared regarding ordering preferences and a "borrowing" theory is proposed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Language Research, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics
