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Description: The purpose of this study is to better understand the concept of being in a romantic relationship. In three prior studies (Study 1 and 2 conducted at Stony Brook University, Study 3 conducted at Champlain College), we gathered a list of features related to the experience of being in a romantic relationship, next a new sample of participants rated the centrality of each feature so that we could identify the prototypical vs. the non-prototypical features, and finally we found that prototypical attributes were more salient in memory than non-prototypical attributes. In the study we are currently proposing, we seek to examine whether prototypical effects would be evident in natural language use. More specifically, we predict that it would be considered inappropriate to preface prototypical but not non-prototypical features with hedges, such as sort of.