Exempel på concrete noun

• 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).

• For mass nouns occurring in count contexts (using the quantifier many) the learner judgements were more accurate for the mass concrete nouns.

• This view is further reinforced by the issue of polysemy for concrete nouns.

• In sum, across all four association conditions, concrete nouns and verbs evoked a higher proportion of equivalent responses than abstract nouns and verbs.

• All items are concrete nouns that should be familiar to children of the included age group.

• Moreover, concrete nouns and verbs were transferred more than abstract nouns and verbs, suggesting that level of concreteness influences lexical access in bilinguals.

• Moreover, this seems particularly the case for concrete nouns and, to some extent, for abstract nouns and adjectives.

• Table 5 shows the average number of nouns, verbs, concrete nouns, and action verbs in utterance-initial and final positions in the 200 utterances of caregiver language samples.