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Children’s use of syntactic and pragmatic knowledge in the interpretation of novel adjectives
- Child Development
, 2006
"... In Study 1, English-speaking 3- and 4-year-olds heard a novel adjective used to label one of two objects and were asked for the referent of a different novel adjective. Children were more likely to select the unlabeled object if the two adjectives appeared prenominally (e.g., ‘‘a very DAXY dog’’) th ..."
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In Study 1, English-speaking 3- and 4-year-olds heard a novel adjective used to label one of two objects and were asked for the referent of a different novel adjective. Children were more likely to select the unlabeled object if the two adjectives appeared prenominally (e.g., ‘‘a very DAXY dog
Effects of Adjective Orientation and Gradability on Sentence Subjectivity
, 2000
"... Subjectivity is a pragmatic, sentence-level feature that has important implications lhr text processing applications such as information extraction and information retrieval. We study the effects of dynamic adjectives, semantically oriented adjectives, and gradable adjectives ou a simple subjectivit ..."
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Subjectivity is a pragmatic, sentence-level feature that has important implications lhr text processing applications such as information extraction and information retrieval. We study the effects of dynamic adjectives, semantically oriented adjectives, and gradable adjectives ou a simple
The Nature of Nominals Modified by Adjectives in the Input
"... Research has shown that, when assigning meaning to a novel adjective in experimental settings, young children pay close attention to the noun the novel adjective modifies. Specifically, Mintz and Gleitman (2002) found that young children are more successful in mapping novel adjectives to the correct ..."
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Research has shown that, when assigning meaning to a novel adjective in experimental settings, young children pay close attention to the noun the novel adjective modifies. Specifically, Mintz and Gleitman (2002) found that young children are more successful in mapping novel adjectives
Nouns are vectors, adjectives are matrices: Representing adjective-noun constructions in semantic space
"... We propose an approach to adjective-noun composition (AN) for corpus-based distributional semantics that, building on insights from theoretical linguistics, represents nouns as vectors and adjectives as data-induced (linear) functions (encoded as matrices) over nominal vectors. Our model significant ..."
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provides two novel ways to represent adjective meanings, alternative to its representation via corpus-based co-occurrence vectors, both outperforming the latter in an adjective clustering task. 1
Linguistic and conceptual influences on adjective acquisition
- in 24- and 36month olds. Developmental Psychology 41
, 2005
"... Two hundred forty English-speaking toddlers (24- and 36-month-olds) heard novel adjectives applied to familiar objects (Experiment 1) and novel objects (Experiment 2). Children were successful in mapping adjectives to target properties only when information provided by the noun, in conjunction with ..."
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Two hundred forty English-speaking toddlers (24- and 36-month-olds) heard novel adjectives applied to familiar objects (Experiment 1) and novel objects (Experiment 2). Children were successful in mapping adjectives to target properties only when information provided by the noun, in conjunction
Count nouns, adjectives, and perceptual properties in children's novel word interpretations
- Developmental Psychology
, 1992
"... Three-year-old children were shown a novel exemplar toy and asked to judge test items that dif-fered from the exemplar in shape, coloration, or material substance. In the count noun condition, children judged whether test items had the same novel name as the exemplar. In the adjective condition, chi ..."
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Three-year-old children were shown a novel exemplar toy and asked to judge test items that dif-fered from the exemplar in shape, coloration, or material substance. In the count noun condition, children judged whether test items had the same novel name as the exemplar. In the adjective condition
Effects of Adjective Orientation and Gradability
, 2000
"... Subjectivity is a pragmatic, sentence-level feature that has important implications for text processing applications such as information extraction and information retrieval. We study the effects of dynamic adjectives, semantically oriented adjectives, and gradable adjectives on a simple subjectivit ..."
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Subjectivity is a pragmatic, sentence-level feature that has important implications for text processing applications such as information extraction and information retrieval. We study the effects of dynamic adjectives, semantically oriented adjectives, and gradable adjectives on a simple
Using verbs and adjectives to automatically classify blog sentiment
- In Proceedings of AAAI-CAAW-06, the Spring Symposia on Computational Approaches
, 2006
"... This paper presents experiments on subjectivity and polarity classifications of topic- and genre-independent blog posts, making novel use of a linguistic feature, verb class information, and of an online resource, the Wikipedia dictionary, for determining the polarity of adjectives. Each post from a ..."
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This paper presents experiments on subjectivity and polarity classifications of topic- and genre-independent blog posts, making novel use of a linguistic feature, verb class information, and of an online resource, the Wikipedia dictionary, for determining the polarity of adjectives. Each post from
Knowledge of Adjective Reference by Monolingual Spanish- and English-
"... that there are crosslinguistic differences in the interpretation of adjectives by English, French, Spanish and Italian- monolingual speaking children. Their results show that only Spanish and Italian-speaking children categorized a novel adjective as an object responding in the same way for the cate ..."
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that there are crosslinguistic differences in the interpretation of adjectives by English, French, Spanish and Italian- monolingual speaking children. Their results show that only Spanish and Italian-speaking children categorized a novel adjective as an object responding in the same way
analysis of positive and comparative adjectives
, 2009
"... Abstract This paper explores a novel analysis of adjectives in the comparative and the positive based on the notion of a trope, rather than the notion of a degree. Tropes are particularized properties, concrete manifestations of properties in individuals. The point of departure is that a sentence li ..."
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Abstract This paper explores a novel analysis of adjectives in the comparative and the positive based on the notion of a trope, rather than the notion of a degree. Tropes are particularized properties, concrete manifestations of properties in individuals. The point of departure is that a sentence
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