Principal semantic components of language and the measurement of meaning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Samsonovich, Alexei V ^a   Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; LANGUAGE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77955219711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010921     Document Type: Article

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