Adverb-Adjective Combination in Overseas Groups

Author(s):

Cliff, Norman

Publication Year:

1960

Report Number:

RM-60-16

Source:

ETS Research Memorandum

Document Type:

Report

Page Count:

13

Subject/Key Words:

Adjectives, Adverbs, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French, Head-driven phrase structure grammar., Scaling

Abstract

This paper was presented at the American Psychological Association Meetings in Chicago in September 1960. It reports on an extension of an investigation into the quantitative description of a linguistic operation; i.e., the combination of an intensive adverb with an adjective. Results indicate that the type of cross-cultural psycholinguistic analysis used in the study may have some utility in exploring linguistic similarities and differences.

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