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Meaning, sound and syntax in english number agreement

Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Abstract Number is one of a small set of basic conceptual categories with relatively clear grammatical reflections and requirements. It must be called upon during fluent language production to create agreement between subjects and verbs, and the questions addressed in this paper concern how that is done.
Kathryn Bock, Kathleen M. Eberhard
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How Can Syntax Support Number Word Acquisition?

Language Learning and Development, 2012
We expand upon a previous proposal by Bloom and Wynn (1997) that young children learn about the meaning of number words by tracking their occurrence in particular syntactic environments, in combination with the discourse context in which they are used. An analysis of the Childes database (MacWhinney, 2000) reveals that the environments studied by Bloom
Kristen Syrett, Julien Musolino, Rochel Gelman   +2 more
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Number/aspect interactions in the syntax of nominalizations: A Distributed approach

Journal of Linguistics, 2010
In this paper we focus on the ability of ArgumentSupportingNominalizations(ASNs) to realize morphological plural. We think that this aspect of their behavior is instrumental in our understanding of their properties and their syntax within one language and across languages.
ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU, GIANINA IORDĂCHIOAIA, ELENA SOARE   +2 more
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The syntax of number

2000
We saw in the last chapter that agreement is one of the ways of expressing number and this will be our main topic here. We first consider agreement and the types of mismatch which occur between the controlling noun phrase and the agreement target. Then we undertake a set of case studies leading to a typology of agreement options in number.
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The logical syntax of number words: Theory, acquisition and processing

Cognition, 2009
Recent work on the acquisition of number words has emphasized the importance of integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives [Musolino, J. (2004). The semantics and acquisition of number words: Integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives. Cognition93, 1-41; Papafragou, A., Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Scalar implicatures:
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Breaking down number syntax: Spared comprehension of multi-digit numbers in a patient with impaired digit-to-word conversion

Cortex, 2014
Can the meaning of two-digit Arabic numbers be accessed independently of their verbal-phonological representations? To answer this question we explored the number processing of ZN, an aphasic patient with a syntactic deficit in digit-to-verbal transcoding, who could hardly read aloud two-digit numbers, but could read them as single digits ("four, two").
Dror, Dotan, Naama, Friedmann, Stanislas, Dehaene   +2 more
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Asymmetries between person and number in syntax: a commentary on Baker’s SCOPA

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2011
This paper is a commentary on Baker’s “When Agreement is for Number and Gender but not Person”. In many contexts, the behavior of person agreement departs from that of number and/or gender agreement; the central hypothesis advanced by Baker—the Structural Condition on Person Agreement (or SCOPA)—is an attempt to derive these departures from a single ...
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Ellis et al. (2021) Number Line Replication Syntax and Simulated Dataset

2021
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Commentary on “How Can Syntax Support Number Word Acquisition?” by Kristen Syrett, Julien Musolino, and Rochel Gelman

Language Learning and Development, 2012
What role does language play in developing the concept of number? This question is at the center of an important current debate.
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Electronic data interchange for administration, commerce and transport (EDIFACT) - Application level syntax rules (Syntax version number: 4, Syntax release number: 1)

2022
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