The study of antonyms (or'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word
meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of …

The present study is an extension of our analysis of Russian basic color terms (BCTs)
elicited in a web‐based psycholinguistic experiment. Color samples (N= 600) were …

In online hotel reviews, reviewers use both direct and indirect positive and negative
evaluations (eg 'good','not bad','bad','not good'). In four studies, we examined the effects of …

Abstract Are color adjectives (“red”,“green”, etc.) relative adjectives or absolute adjectives?
Existing theories of the meaning of color adjectives attempt to answer that question using …

We present an investigation of the ways in which speakers' subjective perspectives are likely
to affect the meaning of gradable adjectives like tall or heavy. We present the results of a …

The purpose of this article is to examine both the process and product of vocabulary learning
in a task-based instructional context. The article reports a study that investigated the …

Previous studies have shown bilingually and monolingually developing children to differ in
their sensitivity to referential pragmatic deixis in challenging tasks, with bilinguals exhibiting …

Inwieweit Leistungsdifferenzierung (bzw. ability tracking) Bildungsungleichheit beeinflusst,
wird kontrovers diskutiert. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, wie die Stringenz von …

This book presents a major leap forward in the understanding of colour by showing how
richer descriptions of colour samples can be operationalized in agent-based models. Four …

The interpretation of size terms involves constructing contextually-relevant reference points
by combining visual cues with knowledge of typical object sizes. This study aims to establish …