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    "pk": 29846,
    "title": "Chaining and historical adjective extension",
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    "abstract": "A hallmark of natural language is the innovative reuse of ex-isting words. We examine how adjectives extend over timeto describe nouns and form previously unattested adjective-noun pairings. Our approach is based on the idea of chainingthat postulates word meaning to extend by linking novel ref-erents to existing ones that are close in semantic space. Wetest this proposal by exploring a set of models that learn toinfer adjective-noun pairings from historical text corpora fora period of 150 years. Our findings across three diverse setsof adjectives support a chaining mechanism that is sensitiveto semantic neighbourhood density, best captured by an exem-plar model of category extension. This work sheds light on thegenerative cognitive mechanisms of word usage extension.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "word usage extension; chaining; exemplar theory;generative model; adjectives"
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    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 2",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59m035gq",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Karan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Grewal",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Yang",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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