[Corpora-List] List of mass and count nouns?

[scott crossley]

Bob,

Check out the MRC Psycholinguistic Database

http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm

They have a few categories for concreteness and abstractness along with
human ratings for each of the selected words (in the thousands). I've used
it successfully in a few studies.

Let me know if you need any help with it.

-- 
Scott Crossley, Ph.D.
Linguistics/TESOL

Department of English
Mississippi State University
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/esl.html
(662) 325-2355

Institute for Intelligent Systems
University of Memphis
http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/
On Dec 20, 2007 12:42 PM, Bob Parks <bobp at clarityconnect.com> wrote:

> Greetings:
> Is anyone aware of comparable tagged data for "concrete" and
> "abstract" words/meanings?
> Thanks,
> Bob Parks
> Visiting Scholar, Cornell University
>
> At 4:41 PM +0000 12/20/07, Martin Wynne wrote:
> >You can download the CuvPlus dictionary from the OTA at:
> >
> >http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/texts/2469.html
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >Martin
> >
> >Roger Mitton wrote:
> >>  Scott,
> >>
> >>  The CuvPlus English dictionary, based originally on the Oxford
> Advanced
> >>  Learner's Dictionary of Current English, and available for research
> from the
> >>  Oxford Text Archive, has the nouns tagged as count/mass/either.
> >>
> >>  Yours,
> >>
> >>  Roger Mitton
> >>  Birkbeck, University of London
> >>
> >>  Message: 5
> >>  Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:47:37 -0800
> >>  From: "scott crossley" <sacrossley_AT_gmail.com>
> >>  Subject: [Corpora-List] List of mass and count nouns?
> >>  To: corpora_AT_uib.no
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Dear Corpora List Members,
> >>
> >>  I am trying to locate an electronic list of mass and count nouns in
> English.
> >>  I am looking at the development of hypernymic relations in L2 learners
> of
> >>  English and would like to compute the amount of mass and count nouns
> used by
> >>  L2 learners as they relate to basic level categories and superordinate
> >>  categories in language use.
> >>
> >>  Any help would be appreciated!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >--
> >Martin Wynne
> >Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
> >AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
> >
> >Oxford University Computing Services
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> >Fax: +44 1865 273275
> >martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk
> >
> >
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