“…Nouns, verbs and adjectives (in that order) represent the three largest word classes in English by type frequency, while verbs are the largest class by token frequency. Moreover, these three categories relate to each other in a notable way: adjectives and verbs often obtain their meaning from the nouns they modify or accompany (e.g., 'a difficult journey' versus 'a difficult person' and 'Jack follows Jill' versus 'Jill follows Jack) (Booth & Waxman, 2009). Nouns are the first grammatical category to be acquired by Englishspeaking children (Bornstein et al, 2004), and they are often the first to be compromised in age-related cognitive decline (Ahmed, Arnold, Thompson, Graham, & Hodges, 2008).…”