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Raffray, Claudine N.; Pickering, Martin J.; Branigan, Holly P. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Noun-noun combinations like "dog scarf" are common in everyday discourse but often have more than one interpretation. How do language users arrive at an interpretation of the relationship between the two nouns? This paper reports three expression-picture matching experiments that used a priming paradigm to investigate the influence of modifier and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Usage, Semantics, Pictorial Stimuli