... frequency of word senses asso- ciated with word forms. In contrast, the weights that guide abduction correspond to a wider variety of information, and do not necessarily correspond to word sense/form ... sense is much more common than the sec- ond, and that this is (partly) a property of the word and not its denotation, since near-synonyms oc- cur with much greater frequency. Frequency differ- ... have main stress on the righthand noun, in contrast to most other compounds (Liber- man and Sproat, 1992). Stress sometimes disam- biguates meaning: e.g., with righthand stress cotton bag has...