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Abstract The literature has debated whether Mandarin Chinese exhibits a finiteness distinction despite the absence of overt tense and agreement marking. Huang (2022), along with other Generative studies, has re‐affirmed this distinction and repeatedly rejected Hu et al. (2001), which presents opposing views.
Chit‐Fung Lam
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Genitive quantifiers in Japanese as reverse partitives [PDF]
Quantificational determiners in Japanese can be marked with genitive case. Current analyses (for example by Watanabe, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, to appear) treat the genetive case marker in these cases as semantically vacuous, but we show ...
Sauerland, Uli, Yatsushiro, Kazuko
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Classifier Assignment by Corpus-based Approach [PDF]
This paper presents an algorithm for selecting an appropriate classifier word for a noun. In Thai language, it frequently happens that there is fluctuation in the choice of classifier for a given concrete noun, both from the point of view of the whole spe ech community and individual speakers. Basically, there is no exect rule for classifier selection.
arxiv
Background Early morphological awareness skills are well‐known predictors of later literacy skills, but little is known on how young children develop this early morphological knowledge without formal instruction. Home literacy environment is considered as a supporting context for several early literacy skills' growth, but no studies have examined ...
Ioannis Grigorakis+3 more
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A Machine-Learning Approach to Estimating the Referential Properties of Japanese Noun Phrases [PDF]
The referential properties of noun phrases in the Japanese language, which has no articles, are useful for article generation in Japanese-English machine translation and for anaphora resolution in Japanese noun phrases. They are generally classified as generic noun phrases, definite noun phrases, and indefinite noun phrases.
arxiv
A comparison of the effectiveness of word Imagery and meaningfulness in paired-associate learning of nouns [PDF]
P. C. Smythe, Allan Paivio
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Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Abstract This paper reports an exploratory pilot study‐ which is part of a larger study‐ examining the impact of an innovative approach to enhancing the writing skills of primary school students with dyslexia, digital storytelling (DST), linked to critical and cultural learning. The study adopted a single‐subject design with a pre‐experimental approach
Kalliopi Kritsotaki+2 more
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The role of noun imagery in the speed of processing the grammaticality of adjective-noun phrases [PDF]
David A. Grant+6 more
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