The prose in it, heavy and awkward, clomps along, rarely quickened by an active verb, a concrete noun, or a vivid modifier.
He went from generalisation to generalisation with hardly a concrete noun from beginning to end.
The main focus of the semantic analysis was the occurrence of concrete nouns and action\activity verbs in the caregiver input.
It appeared that, across all four conditions, all associations to concrete nouns were concrete themselves.
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.
According to the investigators, mental images associated with concrete nouns helped to support their meanings, making these words easier to understand.
These predictions contrast with those that would follow from a view in which concrete nouns cor respond directly across languages.
The majority (91%) of the distractors were nouns (80% concrete nouns and 11% abstract nouns).
