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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Interesting semantic experiment

I started my thesis in a cognitive semantic research group where they work on a semantic memory model. There is this simple online-experiment they use, which i found interesting. maybe you like to try it yourself:
http://itp.uni-frankfurt.de/~mehran/WordAssociations/index.php?mode=ChainStart
what is your opinion about that?
  

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It is pretty useless. It presents a list of words which may or may not contain the word thought of. g.

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  • It is pretty useless.
  • It presents a list of words which may or may not contain the word thought of.
  • g.
  • robber - thief - convict - robber - crook - thief - robbery , etc.
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It is pretty useless. It presents a list of words which may or may not contain the word thought of. Once thought of, the words just recycle, e.g. robber - thief - convict - robber - crook - thief - robbery, etc.
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