She spoke formal English, without any dialect.

Since the nouns were controlled for both length and frequency, one might want to interpret this finding as indicative that adjective-noun phrases are harder to understand when there is no subsective bias.

...more of a streety kind of mixture of martial arts and grappling.

And I'm hardly a lesbian assistant! I mean, I am an assistant, and I do like Ellen DeGeneres's talk show, and sometimes I watch The L Word, but that doesn't mean I want to lip-lock the ladies.