The phrase "a bare form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is stripped down to its essential elements or a minimal version of something.
Example: "The artist presented a bare form of the sculpture, focusing on the basic shapes without any embellishments."
Alternatives: "a stripped-down version" or "a minimal form".
This study tested these predictions by obtaining from children (aged 5 6 and 9 10 years) and adults acceptability ratings for the un- form (and as a control the bare form) of 48 verbs.
Across verbs, a negative correlation was observed between the acceptability of ungrammatical un- prefixed forms (e.g., *unclose) and the frequency of (a) the bare form and (b) alternative forms (e.g., open), supporting the entrenchment and pre-emption hypotheses, respectively.
Acceptability of the bare form: A common finding in acceptability judgment studies is that participants simply like some verbs (e.g., those that are familiar, phonologically prototypical and so on) more than others.
Children aged 5 6 (N = 18), 9 10 (N = 18), and adults (N = 18) rated the acceptability of un- prefixed forms of 48 verbs (and, as a control, bare forms).
Participants completed the test trials in random order with the constraint that the un- and bare form of a given verb were never presented in consecutive trials.
But he only scraped home from a moderate bunch that day, and on the bare form alone We Miss Artie has a Black Mountain to climb to cause an upset tomorrow.
However, when kuai 'fast' is used as an adverb (kuai 2 ), which cannot be predicative, the bare form cannot be used even in a contrastive context, as shown in 14a (cf. 14b).
But Vytorins makers, Merck and Schering-Plough, told him they needed to release the results both to the Food and Drug Administration and, at least in a bare bones form, to investors.
For each verb, participants rated the acceptability of both the un- form (e.g., * unsqueeze) and the bare form (e.g., squeeze), using a five-point smiley face scale (see Fig. 1).
The second important finding was that the corpus frequency of the verb in bare form was, for the two older groups, a significant negative predictor of the acceptability of the un- form (in the main analysis and at least one by-verb-type analysis).
While the most stable surface in its bare form provides binding sites that adsorb carbon with an energy of around 4.0 eV, about 60% higher than the adsorption energy of hydrogen on platinum, a carbonaceous tungsten carbide surface provides a maximum binding energy of 2.49 2.69 eV, much closer to the optimum value for efficient catalysis.
