On the Relation Between Grammatical Number and Cardinal Numbers in Development [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 This mini-review focuses on the question of how the grammatical number system of a child’s language may help the child learn the meanings of cardinal number words (e.g., ‘one’ and ‘two’).
Barbara W Sarnecka
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Grammatical number inflection in Arabic-speaking children and young adults with Down syndrome [PDF]
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2020 Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have more difficulties with the structural aspects of language, including morphology (concatenation and non-concatenation) and syntax (word order and grammatical/concord rules), than with other language ...
Bassil Mashaqba +3 more
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Does Grammatical Number Influence the Semantic Priming Between Number Cues and Words Related to Vertical Space? An Investigation Using Virtual Reality [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The GES framework postulates a hierarchical order between grounded, embodied, and situated representations. Against this background, the present study investigated the relation of two effects: (i) a semantic priming between number cues and words with ...
Martin Lachmair +5 more
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Grammatical number processing and anticipatory eye movements are not tightly coordinated in English spoken language comprehension [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Recent studies of eye movements in world-situated language comprehension have demonstrated that rapid processing of morphosyntactic information – e.g., grammatical gender and number marking – can produce anticipatory eye movements to referents in the ...
Brian eRiordan +2 more
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The Access to Grammatical Number in Spanish Children and Adults. [PDF]
J Psycholinguist Res, 2023 AbstractIn Spanish, the plural form in plural dominant frequency pairs, like “diente/dientes” [tooth/teeth], occurs more frequently than the corresponding singular form. On the other hand, for the singular dominant frequency pairs such as “cometa/cometas” [kite/kites], the singular form is more common than the plural.
Dominguez A, Santos A, Fu Y.
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Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use
Journal of Language Modelling, 2013 The Smith-Stark hierarchy, a version of the Animacy Hierarchy, offers a typology of the cross-linguistic availability of number. The hierarchy predicts that the availability of number is not arbitrary.
Dunstan Brown +4 more
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Design of a cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator with grammatical evolution
Scientific Reports, 2022 This work investigates the potential for using Grammatical Evolution (GE) to generate an initial seed for the construction of a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) and cryptographically secure (CS) PRNG.
Conor Ryan +4 more
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Corela, 2022 This article addresses nominal quantification in English in relation to discrete and continuous quantity, the two semantic categories of discrete and continuous / mass being analysed as interpretations of syntax.
Viviane Arigne
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Inflectional values, such as singular and plural, sustain agreement relations between constituents in sentences, allowing sentence parsing and prediction in online processing.
Valentina Nicole Pescuma +3 more
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Dual number and the typology of the numeral-noun construction
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020 In this paper I propose an extension of Martí’s (2020a) theory of the numeral+noun construction (e.g., English three dogs) to languages whose nouns distinguish singular, dual and plural.
Luisa Martí
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