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Head (linguistics)
About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.
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TL;DR: The authors compare the predictions made by two competing general models of phrase structure for cross-language word order patterns, i.e., categorial grammar and X-bar theory, in which constituents are either heads of phrase or modifiers of these, and hence in which the modifier-head relation holds.
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01 Jan 2015
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TL;DR: It is suggested that people are to how different semantic categories tend to be paired in combination and that this information is used to facilitate the interpretation process in compounding.
Abstract: The CARIN theory (C. L. Gagne & E. J. Shoben, 1997) proposes that people use statistical knowledge about the relations with which modifiers are typically used to facilitate the interpretation of modifier–noun combinations. However, research on semantic patterns in compounding has suggested that regularities tend to be associated with pairings of semantic categories, rather than individual concepts (e.g., P. Maguire, E. J. Wisniewski, & G. Storms, in press; B. Warren, 1978). In the present study, the authors investigated whether people are sensitive to interactional semantic patterns in compounding. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the influence of a given modifier on ease of interpretation varies depending on the semantic category of the head. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the relation preference of the head noun influences ease of interpretation when the semantic category of the modifier is compatible with that preference. In light of these findings, the authors suggest that people are sensitive to how different semantic categories tend to be paired in combination and that this information is used to facilitate the interpretation process.
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