Moreover, concrete nouns and verbs were transferred more than abstract nouns and verbs, suggesting that level of concreteness influences lexical access in bilinguals.
Monolingual and cross-linguistic studies, however, suggest that syntactic differences between verbs (often denoting relational concepts) and concrete nouns (typically denoting referential concepts) have implications for their conceptual representation in memory.
Differential memory effects of concrete nouns and action verbs.
This view is further reinforced by the issue of polysemy for concrete nouns.
All words were concrete nouns.
According to the investigators, mental images associated with concrete nouns helped to support their meanings, making these words easier to understand.
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.
I hypothesise that some of these same criteria may also be useful for the analysis of other abstract and concrete nouns, and possibly for other lexical classes.
