On the relation between grammatical number and cardinal numbers in development. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 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’).
Sarnecka BW.
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Grammatical number processing and anticipatory eye movements are not tightly coordinated in English spoken language comprehension. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 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 ...
Riordan B, Dye M, Jones MN.
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Grammatical number inflection in Arabic-speaking children and young adults with Down syndrome. [PDF]
S Afr J Commun Disord, 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 ...
Mashaqba B +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]
Front Psychol, 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 ...
Lachmair M, Ruiz Fernandez S, Gerjets P.
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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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Grammatical Number and Donkey Anaphora in English [PDF]
Revue québécoise de linguistique, 2009 The article extends the analysis of English donkey anaphora, developed by Gareth Evans and improved by Stephen Neale, beyond those cases where the antecedents are singular count noun phrases, to those where the antecedents are either plural count noun phrases or mass noun phrases.
Gillon, Brendan S.
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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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