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Peer reviewedDowning, Pamela – Language, 1977
A number of experimental tasks were conducted in which subjects were asked to interpret and create novel noun-noun compounds. Results indicate that semantic relationships that hold between members of these compounds cannot be characterized in terms of a finite list of appropriate compounding relationships. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Research, Language Usage
