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 Number and Donkey Anaphora in English [PDF]
Revue québécoise de linguistique, 2009 L’article élargit l’analyse de l’anaphore en anglais trouvée dans les phrases dites ‘donkey sentences’, abordée par Gareth Evans et améliorée par Stephen Neale, au-delà des cas où les antécédents sont les syntagmes nominaux singuliers formés avec des ...
Brendan S. Gillon
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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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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 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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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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The Role of Executive Control in Resolving Grammatical Number Conflict in Sentence Comprehension [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2017 In sentences with a complex subject noun phrase, like “The key to the cabinets is lost”, the grammatical number of the head noun (key) may be the same or different from the modifier noun phrase (cabinets).
André Vandierendonck +3 more
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Number and Grammatical Gender Attraction in Spanish Pronouns: Evidence for a Syntactic Route to Their Features [PDF]
Journal of CognitionWhen a speaker produces a pronoun, they must choose a form that carries the appropriate features. The current study investigates how speakers identify these features.
Margaret Kandel +5 more
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Probing for the Usage of Grammatical Number
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022 ACL 2022 (Main Conference) The discussion section had been inadvertently removed before the article was published on ...
Karim Lasri +4 more
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Pragmatic and grammatical factors affecting the interpretation of number terms [PDF]
Lenguaje, 2022 There is a great deal of discussion in the specialized literature around the meaning and interpretation of the so-called number terms. It has been established that these terms can denote sets of exact cardinalities, as well as sets compatible with “at ...
Gala Villaseñor, Ittay Gil Carrillo
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