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What counts in grammatical number agreement? [PDF]

Cognition, 2013
Both notional and grammatical number affect agreement during language production. To explore their workings, we investigated how semantic integration, a type of conceptual relatedness, produces variations in agreement (Solomon & Pearlmutter, 2004). These agreement variations are open to competing notional and lexical-grammatical number accounts.
Brehm, L., Bock, K.
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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 ...
Almoammer, A., Sullivan, J., Donlan, C., Marusic, F., Zaucer, R., O'Donnell, T., Barner, D.   +6 more
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Grammatical Gender and Number Agreement in Spanish: An ERP Comparison [PDF]

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005
Abstract The role of grammatical gender and number representations in syntactic processes during reading in Spanish was studied using the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique. The electroencephalogram was recorded with a dense array of 128 electrodes while Spanish speakers read word pairs (Experiment 1) or sentences (Experiment 2 ...
Horacio, Barber, Manuel, Carreiras
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Plural or singular? Linguistic discrepancies in grammatical numbers in textbooks of mathematics used in Italian primary and secondary schools

Italiano a scuola, 2021
Starting from the corpus of the project Italmatica. Comprendere la matematica a scuola, fra lingua comune e linguaggio specialistico, the present contribution proposes an analysis of the expression of the gram­matical category of number within specific ...
Michele Canducci, Silvia Demartini, Silvia Sbaragli   +2 more
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Pragmatic and grammatical factors affecting the interpretation of number terms

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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Grammatical Parameters of Conflictogenicity: Morphological Categories of Gender and Number

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021
The article is written at the intersection of two quite different research paradigms – expressive grammar and linguoconflictology. The communicative conflict is produced not only by known conflictogens such as invectives and obscenisms, but also by less ...
Lyudmila A. Brusenskaya
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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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Effects Of Length, Complexity, And Grammatical Correctness On Stuttering In Spanish-Speaking Preschool Children [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose: To explore the effects of utterance length, syntactic complexity, and grammatical correctness on stuttering in the spontaneous speech of young, monolingual Spanish-speaking children.
Agius J., Anderson R. T., Anderson R. T., Anderson R. T., Anderson R. T., Au-Yeung J., Bajaj A., Bauerly K. R., Bedore L., Bedore L., Bernstein Ratner N., Bernstein Ratner N., Bernstein Ratner N., Bernstein Ratner N., Boey R. A., Bosshardt H. G., Brundage S. B., Carias S., Carlo E. J., Centeno J. G., Costello Ingham J., Courtney T. Byrd, Dale P., Dworzynski K., Dworzynski K., Dworzynski K., Edna J. Carlo, Goldstein B., Gutierrez-Clellen V. F., Gutierrez-Clellen V. F., Gutierrez-Clellen V. F., Howell P., Howell P., Howell P., Howell P., Iguina Z., Jackson-Maldonado D., Jennifer B. Watson, Juste F., Kadi-Hanifi K., Kayser H., Kirk L., Lee L., Lezama-Lima E., Logan K. J., Natke U., Navarro-Tomás T., Restrepo M. A., Riley G. D., Roberts P., Ryan B. P., Starkweather C. W., Stepanof E. R., Toronto A. S., Van Riper C., Vitevitch M. S., Wagovich S., Watson J. B., Watson J. B., Watson J. B., Yaruss J. S., Zackheim C. T., Zimmerman I. L., Zimmerman I. L., Zipf G. K.   +64 more
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The role of executive control in resolving grammatical number conflict in sentence comprehension [PDF]

, 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).
Desmet, Timothy, Hartsuiker, Robert, Loncke, Maaike, Vandierendonck, André   +3 more
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Grammatical Number from an Ecological Perspective, Focused on the “Here-Now-I-Real”

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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