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	Measure word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Measure words, in linguistics, are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
		Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered numeral classifiers, closely akin to grammatical gender.
		The appropriate measure word is chosen based on the kind and shape of the noun, and combines with the numeral, sometimes adopting several different forms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Measure_word (741 words)

	Encyclopedia: Measure word
		Measure words are part of the grammar of many Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay and Thai.
		Main article: Chinese measure words In the Chinese language, measure words or classifiers (量词 liàng cí) are used along with numerals to define the quantity of a given object or objects, or with this/that to identify specific objects.
		In the Chinese language, measure words or classifiers (量词 liàng cí) are used along with numerals to define the quantity of a given object or objects, or with this/that to identify specific objects.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Measure-word (1452 words)

	Chinese measure word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Chinese language, measure words or classifiers (Traditional Chinese: 量詞; Simplified Chinese: 量词; pinyin: liàngcí; Cantonese (Yale): leung4 chi4) are used along with numerals to define the quantity of a given object or objects, or with "this"/"that" to identify specific objects.
		It should be noted that the usage of measure words in Chinese is strictly mandatory, that is, they must be used so long as a quantifying numeral or a pronoun is present (a definite article like English "the" does not exist as such in Chinese).
		In modern colloquial speech of certain Chinese dialects, 倆 (liǎ) is sometimes used in lieu of 兩個 (liǎng ge), thereby assuming the identity of a measure word meaning "two of (such and such)".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_measure_word (784 words)

	Measure word: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Measure word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Measure words are used in combination with a number to indicate the count of mass nouns.
		Measure words often classify the noun they are used with and so are known as classifiers.
		Measure words are in contrast to the case of using the number as an adjective to modify the noun which is to be counted:
	www.encyclopedian.com /me/Measure-word.html (368 words)

	The Lexile Framework for Reading
		The Lexile measure of a text is calibrated by using the average sentence length and the average frequencies of the words.
		Word frequency is based on the frequency of the word in a corpus of nearly 600-million words taken from a variety of sources and genres.
		The word frequency measure used was the raw count of how often a given word appeared in a corpus of 5,088,721 words sampled from a broad range of school materials (Carroll, Davies and Richman, 1971).
	www.lexile.com /DesktopDefault.aspx?view=re&tabindex=5&tabid=34 (3648 words)

	HBS Working Knowledge
		While the mapping from word of mouth to future sales is of great interest to the firm, we must also recognize that word of mouth is at the same time an outcome of past sales.
		Word of mouth appears to be especially important for entertainment goods: A recent Forrester report concludes that approximately 50% of young Net surfers rely on word of mouth recommendations to purchase CDs, movies, Videos/DVDs and games (Forrester Research, 2000).
		If she had the opportunity to measure word of mouth, this paper offers unique insight into which aspects of it she should try to measure.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item_popup.jhtml?id=3188 (695 words)

	Measure word -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If they were (The form of a word that is used to denote more than one) plural, the first two phrases would have different meanings.
		See also (A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things) collective noun for a concept related to measure words that is found in English.
		In (A native or inhabitant of Japan) Japanese grammar, most nouns are effectively mass nouns, and measure words must be used with a number when counting them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Me/Measure_word.htm (699 words)

	Measure word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In language, measure words are words that some languages use in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
		Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered a kind of classifier.
		Their use is optional and flexible; the classic concept of measure words as known from Asian languages does not occur.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/measure_word (602 words)

	Chinese measure word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the Chinese language, measure words (量词; liang4 ci2), sometimes referred to as unitary, are used along with numerals to define the quantity of a given object or objects.
		It should be noted that the usage of measure words in Chinese is strictly mandatory, that is, they must be used so long as a quantifying numeral or a pronoun is present (the definite article "the" does not exist in Chinese).
		In modern colloquialism, 俩 (lia3) is sometimes used in lieu of 两个 (liang3 ge), thereby assuming the identity of a measure word meaning "two of (such and such)".
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chinese_measure_word (554 words)

	Chinese Measure Words
		Chinese measure words indicate the unit of measurement of some object just as their English counterparts in phrases like "three cups of water" or "a pinch of salt".
		If the object is contained inside some container, such as a cup, a bottle, or a box, the measure word is simple: it is just the name of the container.
		Learning the correct measure word is as important as learning the correct gender for nouns in languages such as Spanish or French where nouns have gender..
	www.yellowbridge.com /language/measurewords.html (246 words)

	Predictive models. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The factors identified as influencing the number of children correctly spelling a word are: word length (number of letters), frequency of a word, and a measure of the word's phoneticity.
		This is a simple measure and was included because in the initial stages of spelling (and reading) 7-year-olds are still developing short term memory strategies, and any lapses in memory are likely to manifest themselves with longer words.
		The words selected for the 7-year-old tests are not as complex as those for the 11-year-olds; and the 'tricky' phonemes measure identifies those words with particularly unusual spelling features.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j24/predictive.php (2742 words)

	Parable of the Sower
		The parable in colorful language and comparison relates the word or words of God to seeds that are sown and the end result of the landing of each seed after it goes forth from the one who sows it.
		Jesus explains that as the word is heard by men, it has different results according to the different standards each person uses to judge or measure the word.
		If we use the standard of "personal gain" to measure the words of God, then we are sure to be locked in to a carnal nature and way of life.
	www.cybrtyme.com /personal/mtnbiker/sower.htm (4022 words)

	Kids.net.au Dictionary - Definitions of the word: measure
		the act or process of measuring; the measurements were carefully done; his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
		determine the measurements of something or somebody take measurements of; "Measure the length of the wall".
		measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements.
	www.kids.net.au /dictionary-definition/measure (338 words)

	GospelMessage.com - Listings of the word MEASURE in the King James Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].
		The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
		And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred [and] forty [and] four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
	www.gospelmessage.com /word_measure.htm (1836 words)

	WOMMA's Measuring Word of Mouth Conference
		A core principle underlying word of mouth marketing is the need to reach the right consumers--those with high propensity to create and send marketing-relevant information to their peers.
		You can’t measure word of mouth with a conventional control group design, because the purpose of word of mouth is to contaminate the control group with second-order word of mouth.
		This paper examines how to measure and track offline, organic word of mouth for a specific brand or category in light of the low incidence of senders and receivers in the general population.
	www.womma.org /metrics/papers.htm (2825 words)

	Adrants » Word of Mouth Marketing Standards Released
		The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA), the official organization for the word of mouth marketing industry has released the first set of standards for tracking and quantifying word of mouth (WOM) marketing.
		It is impossible measure true word of mouth without skewing your results, and true word of mouth (the kind that happens in casual conversation, around the proverbial watercooler) does not follow any set standards.
		You can measure and standardize the way you qualify the effects of word of mouth, but you cannot measure word of mouth itself.
	www.adrants.com /2005/07/word-of-mouth-marketing-standards.php (570 words)

	Jan W. Amtrup's Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the notion of recognition accuracy can easily be extended to word graphs, a meaningful measure of word graph size has not yet surfaced.
		We argue, that the number of derivation steps a theoretical parser would need to process all unique sub-paths in a graph could provide a measure that is both application oriented enough to be meaningful and general enough to allow a useful comparison of word recognizers across different applications.
		This paper discusses various measures that are used, or could be used, to measure word graph quality.
	members.cox.net /~jamtrup/abstract/abs19.html (193 words)

	Business Wire: What's the ROI on Word of Mouth Marketing? ''Me... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CHICAGO -- "Measuring Word of Mouth," the first-ever conference on measuring, tracking, and quantifying the impact of word of mouth marketing was announced by the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA).
		Marketers will learn how to measure the impact and ROI of word of mouth marketing, how to understand real-world conversations, and how to value the effect of word of mouth on their brand.
		Measuring word of mouth has become increasingly imperative as more companies integrate word of mouth marketing into their core marketing mix.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:133110511&refid=ink_tptd_g1 (508 words)

	Chinese measure word -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the (Click link for more info and facts about Chinese language) Chinese language, measure words or classifiers (量词 liàngcí) are used along with numerals to define the quantity of a given object or objects, or with "this"/"that" to identify specific objects.
		There are two types of such classifiers, (Click link for more info and facts about nominal) nominal and (Click link for more info and facts about verbal) verbal, with the latter being used in quantifying verbs and the amount of time which they take precedence.
		In modern (Click link for more info and facts about colloquial) colloquial speech, 俩 (liǎ) is sometimes used in lieu of 两个 (liǎng ge), thereby assuming the identity of a measure word meaning "two of (such and such)".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ch/Chinese_measure_word.htm (804 words)

	MyNevadaCounty - Elections - Preparing Ballot Arguments and Candidate Statements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If the text exceeds the word limit, the author will be asked to delete or change a sufficient number of words or sentences until the statement is within the required word limit.
		In the event of a conflict between dictionaries, the rule is this: If the different elements of a hyphenated word can stand alone, the hyphenated word shall be counted as being as many words as there are elements, otherwise it shall be one word.
		A number or letter used to identify a portion of a text shall be one word, e.g., "1" or "a".
	new.mynevadacounty.com /elections/index.cfm?ccs=685 (1257 words)

	Dialogue 1 - notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This measure word is a polite form of address for people.
		It is not used with the single word "人": one cannot say "一位人", though it can be used with "人" compounds: "一位客人，一位外国人".
		When used as a measure word, it refers to things that open flat such as "paper" or "table".
	www.chinese.gatech.edu /CHIN1002/lesson15/Dialogue15_notes.html (227 words)

	Division of Research Working Paper Abstract: 03-023 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, there are at least three significant challenges associated with measuring word of mouth.
		While the mapping from word of mouth to future sales is of great interest to the firm, we must also recognize that word of mouth is at the same time n outcome of past sales.
		On the other hand, measuring the “dispersion” of these conversations across communities is. Specifically, we show that a measure of dispersion has explanatory power in a dynamic model of sales, while pure counts do not.
	www.hbs.edu /research/facpubs/workingpapers/abstracts/0203/03-023.html (264 words)

	Measure word -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Measure word -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Note that the preceding measure words are (The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton) singular in form.
		Most measure words in English are more accurately called (An organization regarded as part of a larger social group) units of (The act or process of measuring) measurement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/measure_word.htm (699 words)

	Does Your Product Have Buzz? Tap into an Online Newsgroup : Marketing : HBS Working Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That is, we believe that our measurement approach for word of mouth is equally applicable to offline as it is to online communications.
		So, we created a measure that essentially tells us whether all of these conversations are happening between the same people—and therefore possibly reflecting past purchases more than predicting future ones—or whether they're resulting in new people hearing about the product for the first time.
		Godes: Word of mouth can and should be measured just as all of the other key metrics of a company's success are typically measured.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item.jhtml?id=3531&t=marketing (1003 words)

	The Chinese Outpost \| Grammar \| Measure Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Different measure words are used for different kinds of objects.
		Each measure word comes between the number of objects and the name of the object.
		The counting words and their pinyin translations are colored red to help you pick them out.
	www.chinese-outpost.com /language/grammar/gram0020.asp (305 words)

	Grammatical number (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In terms of pronunciation, however, the majority of nouns (and adjectives) in French are not actually declined for number.
		The -s suffix is not actually pronounced unless the next word starts with a vowel (this is called liaison) and thus does not really show anything; the plural article or other word is the real indicator of plurality.
		The word vert (green), in the singular, becomes verts for the plural (unlike English green, which remains green).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grammatical_number.html (966 words)

	Measure 4 Measure: Sites That Do the Work For You
		All words of the specifed length with matching characters in the corresponding positions will be displayed.
		Crypto Cracker is a tool for cracking word ciphers, also known as cryptograms or cryptoquotes, a puzzle where one letter in the puzzle is substituted with another.
		You enter a word and the computer will come up with a list of words differing from the original word by one letter.
	www.wolinskyweb.net /measure.htm (4483 words)

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