This is copied from the article. 

   "In similar fashion, when a new group of participants witnessed 
ablim used postnominally, but this time in a context in which there was 
a reason for its postnominal use that had nothing to do with ablim 
itself, participants did not learn a restriction against ablim's 
prenominal use. "

Can anyone give me an example of postnominal use of an adjective with a 
reason?

Thanks!
Jan


Quoting "Spruiell, William C" <[log in to unmask]>:

   I ran into this on ScienceDaily, and thought some among the list 
membership might find it interesting and/or useful (the article it’s 
reporting on is in Language, so if you’ve got an LSA membership, you 
already have it). It’s on strategies that learners use to infer 
likely grammatical behavior of novel words. 

    

                    
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093029.htm

    

    

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