Single words, usually concrete nouns, are used as prompts.
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Concrete nouns were transferred with greater frequency than abstract nouns and action verbs were transferred with greater frequency than state or function verbs.
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Concrete nouns, being labels of objects in the world, exist independently of other word categories, and they are, therefore, organised predominantly in relation to one another.
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The prose in it, heavy and awkward, clomps along, rarely quickened by an active verb, aconcretenoun, or a vivid modifier.
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He went from generalisation to generalisation with hardly aconcretenounfrom beginning to end.
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The main focus of the semantic analysis was the occurrence of concrete nouns and action\\activity verbs in the caregiver input.
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It appeared that, across all four conditions, all associations to concrete nouns were concrete themselves.
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He devotes individual chapters to discussing acquisition of the meanings of concrete nouns, pronouns and proper nouns, verbs, visual representations, abstract nouns, and number words.
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According to the investigators, mental images associated with concrete nouns helped to support their meanings, making these words easier to understand.
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These predictions contrast with those that would follow from a view in which concrete nouns cor respond directly across languages.
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The majority (91%) of the distractors were nouns (80% concrete nouns and 11% abstract nouns).
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For mass nouns occurring in count contexts (using the quantifier many) the learner judgements were more accurate for the mass concrete nouns.
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This view is further reinforced by the issue of polysemy for concrete nouns.
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In sum, across all four association conditions, concrete nouns and verbs evoked a higher proportion of equivalent responses than abstract nouns and verbs.
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All items are concrete nouns that should be familiar to children of the included age group.
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