Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: "acapnotic" & "phalacrosis"

• Context:
  Although for the others the party was a splendid success, the couple there on the blind date was not enjoying the festivities in the least. An acapnotic, he disliked her smoking; and when he removed his hat, she, who preferred "ageless" men, eyed his increasing phalacrosis and grimaced.
  • Sternberg, Robert J. (1987), "Most Vocabulary is Learned from Context," in Margaret G. McKeown & Mary E. Curtis (eds.), The Nature of Vocabulary Acquisition (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 89-105.

• Researcher:
  • Dmitriy Dligach

• Dligach, Dmitriy (2004), "Using SNePS-Based CVA Techniques to Determine the Meaning of the Nouns Acapnotic and Phalacrosis from Context" [.doc]
  • comments on above paper (not publically accessible)
  • "acapnotic" SNePS-demo file
  • "phalacrosis" SNePS-demo file
  • transcript of demos