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Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use

open access: diamondJournal 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]

open access: bronzeProceedings 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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Disambiguating Grammatical Number and GenderWith BERT

open access: bronzeRecent 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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What counts in grammatical number agreement? [PDF]

open access: yesCognition, 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.
Laurel E Brehm, K. Bock
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Pragmatic and grammatical factors affecting the interpretation of number terms [PDF]

open access: diamondLenguaje, 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]

open access: bronzeProceedings 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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Plural Classifier xie and Grammatical Number in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]

open access: yesBerkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics, 2019
Author(s): Wu, Yi-Chi | Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of Mandarin Chinese as having both singular classifiers and a plural classifier, xie. The Num head is the cross-linguistic locus for number marking, hosting both plural suffixes (such as ...
Y. Wu
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Grammatical Number from an Ecological Perspective, Focused on the “Here-Now-I-Real” [PDF]

open access: diamondAmerican, 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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