On any speedometer, there are two kinds of what might very loosely be called ‘zones of indifference’. The first kind is found between any two marked speeds. If your speed is in fact 61 mph, it probably falls in one kind of zone of indifference. A normal speedometer is simply not designed to distinguish speeds between 60 and 65

This paper discusses the syntax and semantics of Mandarin predicative adjectives. Mandarin does not require any copular to link the subject and the adjectival predicate; instead, under certain conditions, degree modifications on the adjectival predicate are obligatory. This paper proposes

that gradability is character-istic not only of adjectives but also of verbs and nouns, and that scalar properties are shared by categorially distinct but derivationally-related expressions. 1. DEGREE MODIFICATION IN DEVERBAL GRADABLE ADJECTIVES Among the many observations made in Bolinger’s (1972) classic study

Focusing on the examples of multiple degree modification, this paper argues that the class of degree expressions in English is syntactically and semantically diverse, subdivided both according to the semantic effects of its members and according to the extent to which they permit, and participate

In languages that have them, adjectives and the functional structure they project are the prototypical means by which gradable notions are expressed, and consequently probably the clearest window available onto how degree

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In this paper we offer an integrated syntactic and se-mantic analysis of various cases of multiple degree modification in English, some examples of which appear in (1). (1) a. a new tower 10 feet taller than the Em-pire State Building b. an old department store a lot less taller than the city hall

One of the best tools we have for probing the lexical semantics of adjectives is degree modification. Different degree modifiers impose different requirements on the adjectives they combine with, and the patterns these restrictions reveal can be used to establish a typology of adjectives. This line

to select a parsimonious set for the efficient prediction of a response variable. Least Angle Regression (LARS), a new model selection algorithm, is a useful and less greedy version of traditional forward selection methods. Three main properties are derived: (1) A simple modification of the LARS algorithm

In speech prosody, small pitch movement is characteristic of sadness. Small melodic interval size is similarly known to be correlated with judgments of sadness in music perception. Starting with melodies in the major mode, a study is reported in which the effect of different scale modifications