NSM+ LDOCE: A NON-CIRCULAR DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH  

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Bullock, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Lexicography (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 2 (2011), page 226–240.
Fulltext: Bullock_David.pdf (107.78KB)

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This paper describes an approach used to test the expressive power of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) and its tiny set of semantic primitives. A small dictionary was created, using NSM to paraphrase definitions for each word in the controlled defining vocabulary of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE). Student participants performed several headword-identification tasks to evaluate the quality of these definitions. The resulting 2000-word dictionary is non-circular, and by extension provides non-circular definitions for all the words in the LDOCE.

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