Examples of concrete noun

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The main focus of the semantic analysis was the occurrence of concrete nouns and action\\activity verbs in the caregiver input.
It appeared that, across all four conditions, all associations to concrete nouns were concrete themselves.
He devotes individual chapters to discussing acquisition of the meanings of concrete nouns, pronouns and proper nouns, verbs, visual representations, abstract nouns, and number words.
According to the investigators, mental images associated with concrete nouns helped to support their meanings, making these words easier to understand.
These predictions contrast with those that would follow from a view in which concrete nouns cor respond directly across languages.
The majority (91%) of the distractors were nouns (80% concrete nouns and 11% abstract nouns).
For mass nouns occurring in count contexts (using the quantifier many) the learner judgements were more accurate for the mass concrete nouns.
This view is further reinforced by the issue of polysemy for concrete nouns.
In sum, across all four association conditions, concrete nouns and verbs evoked a higher proportion of equivalent responses than abstract nouns and verbs.
All items are concrete nouns that should be familiar to children of the included age group.
Moreover, concrete nouns and verbs were transferred more than abstract nouns and verbs, suggesting that level of concreteness influences lexical access in bilinguals.
Moreover, this seems particularly the case for concrete nouns and, to some extent, for abstract nouns and adjectives.
Table 5 shows the average number of nouns, verbs, concrete nouns, and action verbs in utterance-initial and final positions in the 200 utterances of caregiver language samples.
Similarly, transfer may include the lexical level when the underlying representations are highly imageable and include numerous overlapping features, as is the case for concrete nouns and action verbs.
Differential memory effects of concrete nouns and action verbs.
Function words such as prepositions, articles, conjunctions, or the auxiliaries are late to appear, whereas concrete nouns, certain full verbs, and adjectives mark the early stages.
Monolingual and cross-linguistic studies, however, suggest that syntactic differences between verbs (often denoting relational concepts) and concrete nouns (typically denoting referential concepts) have implications for their conceptual representation in memory.
I hypothesise that some of these same criteria may also be useful for the analysis of other abstract and concrete nouns, and possibly for other lexical classes.
Some words, like concrete nouns, denote referents in the observable or tangible world.
All words were concrete nouns.
For example, whereas younger children seemed to find both concrete nouns and concrete adjectives the easiest stimuli to define, they encountered more difficulty in defining abstract verbs.
For example within nouns there are two sub classes, concrete nouns and abstract nouns.
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