(2) Word reading times increased with the cumulative number of new-argument nouns at clause boundaries (as well as at sentence boundaries).
(3) In two lateralized tachistoscopic experiments, we presented (i) pairs of nouns with close or distant semantic associations or (ii) pairs of nouns which were randomly matched and later rated by the subjects as to their semantic distance.
(4) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
(5) As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.
(6) Each sentence was presented and then re-presented with the noun in Noun Phrase 1 (NP1) or Noun Phrase 2 (NP2) omitted.
(7) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
(8) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
(9) A difference between verbs and nouns remained even when level of concreteness was controlled.
(10) The sentences within each list consisted of stimulus-response pairs of high-imagery nouns.
(11) In Experiment 2, we ascertain that the bias is specific to nouns; novel adjectives do not highlight superordinate category relations.
(12) Thirdly we investigate his comprehension of semantically and thematically related nouns and verbs.
(13) The study is longitudinal and compares the development of body communication and speech (here: the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns) during the 18-month period of rehabilitation.
(14) Children's interpretations of the new nouns were assessed by asking subjects to select the named toy from an array of 4 toys (e.g., "Point to a fep").
(15) Imageability, concreteness, and the number of syllables in a word were found not to affect performance, nor were derived nouns more difficult to process than simple nouns.
(16) The development of abstract noun definitions follows the development of concrete noun definitions.
(17) Analysis indicated firstly a superiority of the left hemisphere for the naming of compound nouns in mixed print and pictorial representation.
(18) Of course, even though we brights will scrupulously insist that our word is a noun, if it catches on it is likely to follow gay and eventually re-emerge as a new adjective.
(19) Yet our confusions over the c-word are demonstrated by the fact that it has been common in recent years to find hundreds of women standing in a public arena and yelling the gynaecological obscenity: the setting is performances of the drama The Vagina Monologues, in which one sequence invites women to reclaim and empower the down-there noun.
(20) Instead, the results suggest that the lexical representation of a noun or familiar noun phrase provides a pointer to a nonlinguistic conceptual system, and it is in that system that the meaning of a sentence is constructed.
Word
Definition:
(n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
(n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
(n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
(n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
(n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
(n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
(n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
(n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
(v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
(v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
(v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
(v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.
Example Sentences:
(1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
(2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
(6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
(10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
(13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
(14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
(19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.