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What is a referent?

What is a referent? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
  2. That which is referenced.
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In a probe recall experiment, a word with a thematized referent was a better recall probe than a word with a non-thematized referent.
They were significantly younger than the unexposed referent group, but they had the same education level as the aforementioned referent group.
The structural nature of language removes the written word from a direct relationship with its physical referent.
The central point for writing a history of the new woman is that the referent proved conditional, situational yet nonetheless tangible.
But as viewers, we see the destruction of a curiously depeopled space, in which buildings, glaciers, mountains, and cities are reduced to rubble without any human referent.
Experiment 2 included a preceding context in order to fix the referent of the target word and to exclude singular interpretations.

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