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... nouns that refer to females carry the semantic feature [ + female ] ; likewise , all those referring to men are catego- rized semantically as [ + male ] . This analysis appears to work well for cer- tain human nouns . Thus , words like ...
... nouns that refer to females carry the semantic feature [ + female ] ; likewise , all those referring to men are catego- rized semantically as [ + male ] . This analysis appears to work well for cer- tain human nouns . Thus , words like ...
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... human nouns would be understood to refer to men . Instead of carrying the feature [ + male ] , they would be [ + human ] ( to distinguish them from lizards , gnats , and rattlesnakes ) . Just those few words categorized as female would ...
... human nouns would be understood to refer to men . Instead of carrying the feature [ + male ] , they would be [ + human ] ( to distinguish them from lizards , gnats , and rattlesnakes ) . Just those few words categorized as female would ...
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... human experiencer of the internal , psychological response described by the predicate ; these predicates occur in ... nouns from other animate nouns ( dog ) ; [ female ] distinguishes nouns refer- ring to women from those referring to ...
... human experiencer of the internal , psychological response described by the predicate ; these predicates occur in ... nouns from other animate nouns ( dog ) ; [ female ] distinguishes nouns refer- ring to women from those referring to ...
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