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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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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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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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Headedness and the Lexicon: The Case of Verb-to-Noun Ratios
Languages, 2020 This paper takes a well-known observation as its starting point, that is, languages vary with respect to headedness, with the standard head-initial and head-final types well attested.
Maria Polinsky, Lilla Magyar
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Processing of inflected nouns and levels of cognitive sensitivity [PDF]
Psihologija, 2002 In a series of experiments with lexical decision task it was demonstrated that processing of inflected Serbian noun forms is determined by the amount of information (bits) carried by those forms.
Kostić Aleksandar Đ., Mirković Jelena
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Externalism, internalism and logical truth [PDF]
, 2009 The aim of this paper is to show what sorts of logics are required by externalist and internalist accounts of the meanings of natural kind nouns. These logics give us a new perspective from which to evaluate the respective positions in the externalist ...
Besson, Corine
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Corela, 2016 We propose here to take an unusual way to analyze the countable nouns/mass nouns opposition. The path that we follow is the one where the mass/countable opposition does not meet what the semantics of prototype calls basic nouns and subordinate nouns, but
Georges Kleiber
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Beyond gender stereotypes in language comprehension: self sex-role descriptions affect the brain’s potentials associated with agreement processing [PDF]
, 2015 We recorded Event-Related Potentials to investigate differences in the use of gender information during the processing of reflexive pronouns. Pronouns either matched the gender provided by role nouns (such as “king” or “engineer”) or did not. We compared
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