Abstract

A test was made of the generality of the connotative meaning scores of evaluation, activity, and potency in a dictionary of the 1000 most frequent words in English that has been used as the basis of a computer system to measure the expression of emotional tone. This was done by correlating those scores with the values for evaluation and activity given for words also found in two independently created dictionaries, one based upon adults' ratings and one upon ratings by children. In replicated findings reported by the authors of the dictionary for adults' responses support for the generality of evaluation scores was more strong than that for activity scores. For the ratings by children the generality of both evaluation and activity dimensions received strong support.

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