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 morphology as a source of early number word meanings [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 Significance Languages vary in how they grammatically mark number (e.g., in nouns, verbs, and so forth). We test the effects of this variability on learning number words—for example, one , two , three —by investigating children learning Slovenian and Saudi ...
Alhanouf Almoammer +6 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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Grammatical Number in Psycholinguistic Research [PDF]
, 2021 Piotr Gulgowski
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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 that of the modifier noun phrase (cabinets). When the number is the same, comprehension is usually easier than when it is different.
André Vandierendonck +3 more
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The Grammatical Number of Cytoplasm
The American Journal of Dermatopathology, 1985 D. Friday King
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Disambiguating Grammatical Number and GenderWith BERT
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2021 Accurately dealing with any type of ambiguity is a major task in Natural Language Processing, with great advances recently reached due to the development of context dependent language models and the use of word or sentence embeddings.
Annegret Janzso
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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.
Brendan S. Gillon
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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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Prosodic and segmental cues to the perception of grammatical number in two limburgian dialects of dutch [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2004 This paper investigates the perception of grammatical number in two Limburgian dialects of Dutch, Roermond and Weert, as a function of focus and intonational context. In these dialects, number can be marked segmentally or prosodically.
Rachel Fournier +3 more
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