Abstract Human records can assist us in understanding real descriptions and expected ideals of music. The present work examined how have music emotions been described millions Google books. In general, positive adjectives were more regularly used to describe than negative adjectives, demonstrating a positivity bias emotional depiction has shifted over time, including decrease the frequency Engl...

We present evidence from two picture-matching experiments that native adult speakers of American English order and interpret sequences nouns modified by adjectives/relative clauses containing adjectives in line with the Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Principle proposed Bleotu & Roeper (2022a, b) Bleotu, Foucault, (2023). This principle ensures an automatic mapping set-subset semantics to a r...

The generalized quantifier theory does not apply to Japanese quantifiers since: i) the number of NP argument is unspecified; and, ii) quantities are often expressed by predicative adjectives. The word order changes the interpretation, e.g., non-split quantifiers correspond to definite NPs with uniqueness and maximality conditions while split NPs are wide scope indefinites. This paper shows that...

This study is to re-examine the language phenomenon which occurred in Japan. Japan had undergone a linguist phenomenon called Lou Go (‘Lou language’) between 2006 and 2007. Lou Go had been analysed its basic grammar rule and the use of vocabulary when it was in trend. However, the analysis was not linguistically studied and its implication was unknown. The objective of this study is to investig...

Ordering of predicative adjectives within the Noun Phrase varies cross linguistically in systematic ways (Cinque 2010). In Spanish adjectival ordering exhibits more flexibility than English. To test extent to which stricter word order English affects ordering, 35 heritage bilingual speakers living an dominant environment were asked judge orders and interpret adjective elisions. Results indicate...

Word-order rules impose major constraints on linguistic behavior. For example, adjectives appear before nouns in English, and after nouns in French. This means that constraints on word order must be language-specific properties upheld on-line by the language system. Despite the importance of these rules, little is known about how they operate. We report an influence of word order on the activat...

We specify a model for the conceptual interpretation of relative adjectives (like \big"), which covers a crucial aspect of the underlying comprehension process { the comparison to a norm that is associated with a comparison class. Building on an elaborate domain ontology and knowledge about intercorrelations, comparison classes are dynamically created depending on the context in which adjectiva...