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Count Nouns - Mass Nouns, Neat Nouns - Mess Nouns
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 In this paper I propose and formalize a theory of the mass-count distinction in which the denotations of count nouns are built from non-overlapping generators, while the denotations of mass nouns are built from overlapping generators.
Fred Landman
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Object numerosity influence sensorimotor programs evoked by graspable object nouns [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyGrasping actions can be evoked and modulated by a range of linguistic and abstract concepts, including object nouns, adjectives and numbers. The present study investigated whether the grasp-compatibility effect—typically elicited by graspable object ...
Gioacchino Garofalo +3 more
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Languages, 2021 Bilingual children often experience difficulties with inflectional morphology. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate how regularity of inflection in combination with verbal short-term and working memory (VSTM, VWM) influences bilingual ...
Elma Blom +2 more
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HD-tDCS of primary and higher-order motor cortex affects action word processing
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 The contribution of action-perception systems of the brain to lexical semantics remains controversial. Here, we used high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) in healthy adults to examine the role of primary (left hand motor area;
Karim Johari +5 more
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Distribution of genitive plural suffixes in Kosovo-resava dialect: Cartographic representation [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2022 The paper analyses the materials recorded in the regions of the Kosovo-Resava dialect and then used in the relevant monographic studies and dialect related publications with the aim of presenting the inventory and distribution of genitive plural forms ...
Radovanović Dragana I. +1 more
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On the prosodic traits of the declension of nouns in the Ijekavian West-Serbian speeches [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2019 The paper systematically and analytically delves into conspicuous accent characteristics of the declension of nouns in the Ijekavian West-Serbian speeches (less commonly of lexical categories and individual examples). The demonstrated instances (
Marković Slavoljub Z.
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Acquisition of diminutives in typologically different languages: Evidence from Russian and Estonian
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2021 The comparative paper considers diminutives at the early stages of development based on the longitudinal data of typically-developing monolingual children, aged up to three years old, acquiring languages which are different in the domain of diminutive ...
Victoria V. Kazakovskaya, Reili Argus
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Gender as a property of words and as a property of structures
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020 A reflection on the essence of gender as a grammatical concept leads to examining some phenomena which suggest that gender is fundamentally a property of nominal syntactic structures, rather than a word-property shared between morphemes in a structure ...
Paolo Acquaviva
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MASS AND COUNTABILITY IN ENGLISH NOUNS [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 1982 This paper attempts to elucidate and substantiate the points that there is a referential validity underlying nouns in English and that this validity is more apparent and consistent in concrete than in abstract nouns; also that abstract nouns, too ...
Mohammed Basil K. Al - Azzawi
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Effectiveness of semantic-based treatment in persons with aphasia
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2020 Background: Semantic-based treatment is the salient approach used to remediate word retrieval deficits in persons with aphasia (PWAs). It is deemed to improve semantic attributes around the target word, thus aids in restoring word retrieval abilities ...
P Deepak, S P Goswami
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