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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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 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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Grammatical Number and Donkey Anaphora in English [PDF]
Revue québécoise de linguistique, 1994 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 ...
Gillon, Brendan S.
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Grammatical Number from an Ecological Perspective, Focused on the “Here-Now-I-Real” [PDF]
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2023 This article shows, using the example of number agreement, that an ecological perspective with a focus on the situation of the utterance (i.e. here-now-I-real) is an effective way to understand differences in grammar among individual languages and to ...
Sadanobu Toshiyuki
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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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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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Probing for the Usage of Grammatical Number [PDF]
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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