Using textual and experimental techniques to measure antonym canonicity

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 380-429

  Paradis, Carita ^a   Willners, Caroline ^b   Jones, Steven ^c  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjective; Antonym; Contrast; Conventionalization; Gradable; Lexico semantic relation; Prototype; Synonym

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449139254     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.4.3.04par     Document Type: Article

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