The Effect of Human Experience on Formal Word Meaning

Year: 2007 Authors: Russell Jay Hendel

Core claim

Human experience and memory should be treated as intrinsic components of formal word meaning, especially for subjective adjectives like big.

Topics

word meaning, subjective adjectives, experiential definitions, semantic ambiguity

Domains

statistics, set theory, outlier analysis, language theory, linguistics

Methods

conceptual formalization, adjective classification, statistical analogy

Media

dictionary meaning, memory, size distributions

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