Noun-noun combination: meaningfulness ratings and lexical statistics for 2,160 word pairs.

ABSTRACT: The combining of individual concepts to form an emergent concept is a fundamental aspect of language, yet much less is known about it than about processing isolated words or sentences. To facilitate research on conceptual combination, we provide meaningfulness ratings for a large set of (2,160) noun-noun pairs. Half of these pairs (1,080) are reversed versions of the other half (e.g., SKI JACKET and JACKET SKI), to facilitate the comparison of successful and unsuccessful conceptual combination independently of constituent lexical items. The computer code used for obtaining these ratings through a Web interface is provided. To further enhance the usefulness of this resource, ancillary measures obtained from other sources are also provided for each pair. These measures include associate prod

SUBMITTER: Graves WW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3663253 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature