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Journal articles on the topic "Mass and count nouns"

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Coutinho Costa, Isabella. "The count/mass distinction in Taurepang." Linguistic Variation 20, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 352–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.00026.cou.

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Abstract This paper presents a description of the count/mass distinction in Taurepang, a Cariban language spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. The methodology used was based on Lima & Rothstein’s questionnaire (this volume). We show that Taurepang is a bare noun language and that mass and count nouns can be pluralized. Despite nominal quantifiers have the same distribution, they show different interpretation with count and mass nouns. As the data also shows that numerals distinguish count and mass nouns and that container phrases trigger the count/measure interpretation, we assume here that the denotation of mass nouns in Taurepang cannot be count.

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Bomfim, Anari, and Suzi Lima. "Count and mass nouns in Patxohã." Linguistic Variation 20, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 324–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.00024.bom.

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Abstract This paper describes the count/mass distinction in Patxohã, a revitalized language spoken in Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil. We observe that only count nouns can be directly combined with numerals and that only count nouns can co-occur with plural determiners. Furthermore, only count nouns can be combined with size adjectives. As for quantifiers, we observe that at least one quantifier in the language (nitxi) can be combined with count and mass nouns, but trigger different interpretations depending on the noun it is combined with. We also discuss the use of container phrases in counting and measuring contexts.

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Gordon, Peter. "Count/mass category acquisition: distributional distinctions in children's speech." Journal of Child Language 15, no. 1 (February 1988): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900012083.

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ABSTRACTThe count/mass distinction represents a categorical differentiation of nouns into count nouns which can be individuated when quantified (e.g. a car, several tables) and mass nouns which may not (cf. *a water, *several sands). The emergence of this distinction was examined in the longitudinal speech data of two children. In the first analysis, use of count nouns and mass nouns was compared in noun phrase contexts that require count nouns (e.g. a X, another X). It was found that from the earliest samples children used more count nouns in these contexts, hence showing a distributional distinction of noun types. This result suggests very rapid acquisition of count/mass subcategories. A series of further analyses assessed the possibility that early differentiation of count and mass nouns may be due to rote learning. No evidence was found for this proposal. A final analysis examined the development of a rule that requires that singular count nouns must be modified by a determiner. Acquisition here was found to be more protracted in nature since determiners are not used consistently in ‘telegraphic’ speech. Problems concerning the learnability of the obligatory determiner rule are discussed along with some speculations concerning the role of semantics in the acquisition of the count/mass distinction.

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Coutinho Costa, Isabella. "The count/mass distinction in Ye’kwana." Linguistic Variation 20, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 409–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.00030.cou.

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Abstract This paper presents a description of the count/mass distinction in Ye’kwana, a Cariban language spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. The methodology used was based on Lima & Rothstein’s questionnaire this volume). The data shows that Ye’kwana is a bare noun language and that mass and count nouns can be pluralized. However, numerals need a container phrase in order to be directly combined with mass nouns. Nominal quantifiers wanna and ooje can be directly combined with count and mass nouns, but they show different interpretations.

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Sanchez-Mendes, Luciana, Ana Paula Quadros Gomes, and Aronaldo Julio. "The count-mass distinction in Terena." Linguistic Variation 20, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 382–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.00028.san.

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Abstract This paper examines the count-mass distinction in Terena (Aruák, Brazil) by focusing on plural marking availability, numeral and quantifier distribution and cardinal versus volume interpretation in quantity judgment tests. The data collected from the initial research of these features in Terena reveals the relevancy of the count-mass distinction in the language with some signature properties: (i) only count nouns can be directly combined with numerals; (ii) only count nouns can be used with the quantifier êno with the interpretarion of many individuals rather than a large quantity; and finally, (iii) only count nouns can express cardinality of individuals in a comparative sentence such as John has more N than Peter. Plural morpheme distribution is unsuitable for distinguishing count from mass nouns (such as in English) since mass nouns can be pluralized in Terena, provided noun denotations have individuals to allow for number rather than volume quantity interpretation.

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Robins, Dan. "Mass Nouns and Count Nouns in Classical Chinese." Early China 25 (2000): 147–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362502800004296.

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This article defends three theses concerning the semantics of nouns in classical Chinese. First, they are all free to function as mass nouns. Second, though many of them can also function as count nouns, they do not do so as frequently as do corresponding English nouns. Third, unlike English nouns, nouns in classical Chinese do not need to be classified as count nouns and mass nouns in order to explain their behavior in particular contexts. I argue that classical Chinese nouns function as count nouns only when specific elements of the syntactic context force them to do so, including numbers, some quantifiers, and some adjectives. Because classical Chinese nouns usually occur without such elements, they function more often as mass nouns. I develop this argument in opposition to an alternative analysis defended by Christoph Harbsmeier, according to which classical Chinese nouns divide into three classes: count nouns, mass nouns, and generic nouns. I show that the syntactic and semantic distinctions Harbsmeier draws in support of his analysis do not illuminate the behavior of classical Chinese nouns. The article also briefly addresses the ontological issues that have seemed to some linguists and philosophers to be related to the count/mass distinction.

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Mihatsch, Wiltrud. "Collectives, object mass nouns and individual count nouns." Lexical plurals and beyond 39, no. 2 (December 31, 2016): 289–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.39.2.05mih.

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Mass superordinates such as clothing, clothes and furniture form a distinct and peculiar class of nouns in languages with an obligatory singular/plural distinction. These nouns often have pluralia-tantum variants as well as count equivalents – both within one linguistic system as well as cross-linguistically. This study is a follow-up of my earlier analysis of Romance superordinates (Mihatsch, 2006). The data are taken from English, German, French and Spanish in order to demonstrate the striking cross-linguistic pattern. The highly variable Spanish ropa(s) ‘clothing/clothes’ is analysed in greater detail. I argue that in most cases the apparently unsystematic synchronic variants arise from partly unidirectional diachronic changes, namely a lexicalisation process leading from collective nouns to object mass nouns, often followed by the appearance of plural forms, which oscillate between a lexical and an inflectional plural.

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Stoch, Nastazja. "The grammatical distinction between count nouns and mass nouns in Mandarin Chinese." Lingua Posnaniensis 62, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 55–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/linpo-2020-0004.

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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to prove the Mass Noun Hypothesis wrong. The hypothesis claims that all common nouns in classifier languages like Mandarin Chinese are mass nouns. The objection against it consists in displaying its implausible deduction, where false conclusions have been drawn due to relying on the grammar of English, which is incongruent with the grammar of Chinese. Consequently, this paper defends the Count Noun Thesis, stating that in Chinese there are count as well as mass nouns. In support of this statement, first, the typology of numeral classifiers had to be established, which resulted in gathering and completing all the reasons to distinguish classifiers from measure words. After only this necessary differentiation was made, it was possible to show that the count/mass distinction exists in Mandarin Chinese. That is, count nouns by default have only one classifier, with certain disclaimers. Apart from that, count nouns, as in every language, may undergo some measurement with measure words. Mass nouns, however, in the context of quantification may appear only with measure words, but not with classifiers. These conditions naturally follow from the ontological status of the two types of nouns’ referents, i.e. bounded objects denoted by count nouns, and scattered substances denoted by mass nouns.

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Mohler, Charles L., and Linda A. Heyne. "Count Nouns and Mass Nouns: Crops, Produce, and the Plural of Seed." Weed Technology 32, no. 2 (December 7, 2017): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/wet.2017.110c.

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AbstractThe distinction between count nouns and mass nouns affects thinking and writing about various types of crops and produce. Count nouns are words that indicate discrete, countable objects (e.g., forks, viewpoints), whereas mass nouns are words that indicate some relatively undifferentiated substance (e.g., water, energy). We explain the grammar of these two forms and point out some writing pitfalls to avoid. The word seed is one of the few English nouns that is both a count noun and a mass noun. An argument is presented for using seeds as the plural when several individuals are counted and for using seed as the singular when referring to seeds in the aggregate.

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Storto, Luciana R. "Count and mass nouns in Dâw." Linguistic Variation 20, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 219–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.00016.sto.

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Abstract The goals of this paper are to describe the grammatical properties of nouns and number in Dâw (Naduhup family, Northwestern Amazonia, Brazil) using Lima & Rothstein’s questionnaire (this volume) on mass versus count nouns and to contribute to the typological and semantic literature on nouns and number. Our results show that Dâw is a bare argument language, with no plural on nouns or numeral classifiers, in which all nouns can be counted directly without the need of a measure or container phrase. A difference between notionally count and mass nouns can be found only when different sets of quantifiers are combined with mass and count nouns and in comparatives.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mass and count nouns"

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McPherson, Leslie M. (Leslie Margaret). "Learning the categories count noun and mass noun." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64089.

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Maloney, Erin M. "Investigating Cognitive Individuation: A Study of Dually-Countable Abstract Nouns." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1244571228.

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Martins, Nize da Rocha Santos Paraguassú. "A contabilidade dos nomes no português brasileiro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-08112010-101718/.

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Esta tese investiga a denotação dos nomes comuns nas línguas naturais. De forma mais específica enfoca a denotação dos nomes comuns no português brasileiro (PB). O objetivo é investigar os mecanismos que licenciam contabilidade no PB. Primeiramente investiga-se a denotação dos nomes no PB frente à proposta de Borer (2005). A autora defende que interpretações contáveis são licenciadas estruturalmente, mas que interpretações massivas não, e, nesse sentido, interpretações massivas são default. Segundo Borer (2005), o plural, em línguas como o inglês, e os classificadores, em línguas como o chinês, são sintagmas de classificação que originam interpretações contáveis, cujo núcleo tem um valor aberto div, onde DIV é um operador de divisão. A ausência desses sintagmas confere uma interpretação massiva aos nomes. Diferentemente da maioria das línguas germânicas e românicas que permitem a ocorrência do plural nu, mas não permitem a ocorrência do singular nu, no PB, o singular nu é extremamente produtivo. Assim, se Borer (2005) estiver certa, no PB os nomes são massivos, pois os nomes nessa língua podem ocorrer sem nenhuma estrutura que os divida, denotando uma massa amorfa, sem divisão. No entanto, a análise dos dados do PB mostra, contra as previsões de Borer (2005), que a denotação default dos nomes, independentemente de ser indeterminada para número, pode ser massiva ou contável e que tais nomes já vêm com essa denotação marcada do léxico. Em segundo lugar, investiga-se a denotação dos nomes lexicalmente contáveis em estruturas não marcadas para contabilidade. Como Rullmann e You (2003) defendem para o chinês, o PB é uma língua em que os nomes possuem número geral, isto é, não são singular nem plural, são neutros para número, como defendem Müller (2001) e Schmitt e Munn (1999, 2002) para o PB. Línguas que possuem número geral geralmente não possuem morfologia de número, entretanto, o PB é um exemplo de língua que possui número geral, classificação e morfologia de número. Em terceiro lugar, investiga-se a denotação dos nomes segundo a proposta de Rothstein (2007). A autora defende que interpretações contáveis são licenciadas por um mecanismo de contabilidade gramatical. Segundo Rothstein (2007), o singular em línguas como o inglês e os classificadores numéricos em línguas como o chinês são operações gramaticais que licenciam interpretações contáveis. Como o PB é uma língua que possui número geral, classificadores numéricos e morfologia de número, defende-se a tese de que nessa língua o que licencia contabilidade são as operações de número e de classificação.
This thesis investigates common noun denotations in natural languages. To be more specific, it encompasses common noun denotations in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Its objective is to investigate the mechanisms which licence countability in BP. Firstly, noun denotation in BP is investigated according to Borers proposal (2005). The author argues that count interpretations are structurally licensed, while mass interpretations are not, thus in this sense, mass interpretations are default. According to Borer (2005), the plural morphology, in languages such as English, and the classifiers, in languages such as Chinese, are classifiers phrases which originate count interpretations with opened value nucleus div, where DIV is a division operator. The absence of these classifiers phrases bestows mass interpretation to the nouns. Contrary to most Germanic and Romance languages which permit bare plurals, but do not permit bare singulars, in BP, the bare singular is extremely productive. Thus, if Borer (2005) is right, nouns are mass-denoting in BP since they can occur without any distinctive structure, denoted amorphous mass, undivided. However, data analysis in BP opposes the predictions of Borer (2005) that a default noun denotation, regardless of being indeterminate in number, can be a mass or count denotation, and that such nouns already have this lexical denotation. Secondly, lexical denotation of count nouns in unmarked structures is investigated for countability. As Rullman and Aili You (2003) defend Chinese, BP is a language in which nouns have general number, that is, they are neither singular nor plural, they are neutral for number, as defended by Müller (2001) and Schmitt e Munn (1999, 2002). Languages with general number do not have plural morphology, but BP is an example of a language that has general number, numeral classifier and plural morpheme. Thirdly, denotation of names according to Rothstein (2007) is investigated. The author argues that countable interpretations are licensed by a mechanism of grammatical countability. According to Rothstein (2007), singular morphology in languages such as English and numeral classifiers in languages such as Chinese are grammatical operations which licence count interpretations. Since BP is a language that has general number, numeral classifiers and plural morphology, the thesis that, in this language, number and classification operations licence countability is defended.

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Jianbo, Zhang. "Nomes nus e classificadores do chinês mandarin: uma análise a partir da tipologia linguística sobre os sintagmas nominais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-12012009-112906/.

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Esta dissertação investiga nomes nus e classificadores numerais do chinês mandarim, assim como a distinção lexical entre nomes contáveis e massivos do chinês. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar e avaliar as possíveis denotações dos nominais do chinês mandarim. O texto é divido em três partes. Na primeira, investigam-se nomes nus do chinês mandarim, que manifestam número geral. Defende-se que o número geral não ocorre em sintagmas nominais em que existe numeral. No Chinês mandarim, nomes nus podem ser interpretados como indefinidos, definidos e genéricos de acordo com suas posições sintáticas e contextos em que ocorrem. A hipótese defendida na segunda parte da dissertação é a de que, no chinês mandarim, há distinção lexical entre nomes contáveis e massivos. Um fator importante na distinção contável-massivo do chinês mandarim é a presença de classificadores e suas relações com os nomes. Defende-se que a combinação entre os nomes e os classificadores é seletiva e, com base nisso, os nomes comuns do chinês podem ser divididos em nomes contáveis, nomes massivos, nomes coletivos, nomes abstratos e nomes próprios. Além de classificador, mais uma evidência para a contabilidade dos nomes do chinês é o morfema men. A terceira parte da dissertação avalia a presença de classificador nos sintagmas nominais com numerais. Defende-se que diferentes grupos de classificadores possuem diferentes funções: classificadores individuais são marcadores gramaticais de contabilidade e não têm a função individualizadora e, os outros grupos têm suas restrições na combinação com os nomes. A combinação entre numeral e classificador pode ser tratada como um núcleo complexo que ocorre morfologicamente como um item lexical, mas o numeral pode-se omitir dentro deste complexo e classificador não. Sendo assim, Os classificadores devem ser tratados como um sufixo na sua ocorrência dentro do complexo [Num-CL], mas como um clítico em outras ocorrências.
This dissertation investigates bare nouns and numeral classifiers in Mandarin Chinese, as well as the lexical distinction between count and mass nouns of Chinese. The goal of this work is to study and assess the possible denotations of nominals in Mandarin Chinese. The dissertation is divided in three parts. In the first part, the bare nominals in Mandarin Chinese will be investigated and they have general number. We argue that the general number can not happen in noun phrases when they contain numerals. In Mandarin Chinese, the bare nouns can be interpreted as indefinites, definites and generics, according to their syntactic positions and contexts in that they happen. The hypothesis presented in the second part of this dissertation is that in Mandarin Chinese, there is the lexical distinction between count and mass nouns. One important factor in this count-mass distinction of Mandarin Chinese is the presence of classifiers and their relationships with the nouns. We argue that, based on the selective combination between names and classifiers, the common nouns of Chinese can be divided in count nouns, mass nouns, collective nouns, abstract nouns and proper nouns. Besides the classifier, one more evidence for the accounting of Chinese\'s names is the morpheme men. The third part of the dissertation assesses the classifiers presence in the noun phrases with numerals. We argue that, different groups of classifiers have different functions: the individual classifiers are grammatical markers of accounting and they do not have the individualizing function, while the other groups have their restrictions in the combination with the nouns. The combination between the numeral and the classifier can be treated as a complex head that happens morphologically as a lexical item, but the numeral in which can be omitted in some contexts and the classifier can not. Thus, the classifiers should be treated as a suffix in his occurrence with the complex [Num-CL], but as a clitic in other occurrences.

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Siaga, Henry T. "Mass nouns in Tshivenda." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50012.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the mass nouns in Tshivenda. The specific mass nouns in each nominal class will then be investigated to see whether they have certain morphological and syntactic features which are different from count nouns. Chapter one is the introduction of this study. It describes the aim, organisation and method of the study. Chapter two is the overview of the literature on mass nouns. It gives overview of the most prominent words on mass nouns in general. Some of the prominent works on this alternation include the following: Pelletier (1979a, 1979b,); Ware (1979), Cartwright (1979), McCawley (1979) Chierchia (1982), Link (1983) and Eschenbach (1993). Chapter three investigates which nouns may be mass nouns, the purpose of the classification of nouns in wordnet, nominal classes in Tshivenda and the morphological and syntactic features of mass and count nouns. Chapter four is the conclusion of the study, the summary as well as investigation into the morphological, syntactic and semantic feature of plurality.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die meervoudige naamwoorde in Tshivenda. Die spesifieke meervoudige naamwoorde sal elkeen in sy normale klas geondersoek word om te sien of hulle sekere morfologiese en sintaktiese eienskappe het, wat nie ooreen stem met tel naamwoorde. Hoofstuk 1 is die inleiding van hierdie studie. Dit beskryf die doelwit, organisasie en metode van die studie. Hoofstuk 2 is ‘n oorsig van die literatuur aangaande meervoudige naamwoorde. Hierdie is ‘n oorsig van die mees prominente meervoudige naamwoorde in die algemeen. Sommige van die prominente werke van hierdie nasie sluit die volgende in: Pelletier 91979a; 1979b), Ware (1979), Cartwright (1979), McCawley (1979), Chierchia (1982), Link (1983) en Eschenbach (1993). Hoofstuk 3 identifiseer meervoudige naamwoorde. Die doel van die klasifikasie van naamwoorde in woordnet, normale klassie in Tshivenda en die morfologiese en sintaktiese eienskappe van meervoudigheid. Hoofstuk 4 is die konklusie van die studie, die opsomming as ook die ondersoek in die morfologiese, sinktaktiese en semantieke eienskappe van meervoudigheid.

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Erbach, Kurt [Verfasser], and Hana [Gutachter] Filip. "Object Mass Nouns: A Frame Based Analysis / Kurt Erbach ; Gutachter: Hana Filip." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1229691820/34.

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Tanaka, Samira. "Targeting count and noncount nouns in English through textual enhancement and elaboration tasks: effects on L2 development and text comprehension." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106514.

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This study investigated the effects of input enhancement in isolation and in combination with output elaboration tasks on the accuracy of count and noncount nouns and text comprehension in English as a Second Language. Participants were twenty-three Spanish adult ESL learners who were divided into one control and two intervention groups. The intervention lasted two weeks, and learners were required to read materials with input enhancement and to participate in classroom tasks that elicited output practice. Pre- and post-tests included a grammaticality judgment task, a written task and a decontextualized task. A note-taking activity along with questionnaire and interview materials provided qualitative support for the data analyzed quantitatively.Results from a two-factor ANOVA with repeated measures revealed the following: (a) no significant effect in regard to participants' mean scores on the grammaticality judgment tasks for Group, Time, or the Group x Time interaction; (b) participants' mean scores on the writing tasks showed a significant effect for Time, irrespective of group. Findings from the decontextualized task were not analyzed statistically, but they suggest beneficial effects on the performance of the intervention groups. Finally, findings from this study demonstrated improvement in text comprehension over time, irrespective of group (and no Group x Time interaction), which provided empirical support that this type of treatment is relatively unobtrusive to comprehension.
Cette étude portrait sur les effets de la mise en évidence visuelle seule et en combinaison avec les tâches de production langagière sur la précision des noms comptables et des noms massifs et de la compréhension des textes en anglais comme langue seconde.La cohorte de participants était composée de vingt-cinq hispanophones adultes apprenants en ALS divisés en un groupe-témoin et deux groupes expérimentaux. L'intervention a duré deux semaines et les apprenants devaient lire des documents avec une mise en évidence visuelle de la structure langagière et participer à des tâches en salle de cours qui requéraient des exercices de production langagière. Des tests avant et après l'intervention incluaient des tâches de jugement grammatical, des tâches écrites et une tâche décontextualisée. Les documents pour la prise de notes, les questionnaires et les entrevues fournissaient le support qualitatif pour les données analysées quantitativement.Les résultats d'une ANOVA (analyse de variance) à deux facteurs avec mesures répétées ont révélé ce qui suit : (a) aucun effet significatif quant aux scores moyens des participants pour les tâches de jugement grammatical pour le Groupe, le Temps ou l'interaction Groupe x Temps; (b) les scores moyens des participants pour les tâches d'écriture ont donné un effet significatif pour le Temps, mais sans égard au Groupe. Les constatations de la tâche décontextualisée n'ont pas été analysées statistiquement, mais elles suggèrent des effets bénéfiques à en juger par la performance des groupes d'intervention. Enfin, les constatations de cette étude ont démontré une amélioration de la compréhension du texte avec le Temps, mais sans égard au Groupe (et aucune interaction Groupe x Temps), ce qui représente une preuve empirique indiquant que ce type de traitement n'a pas d'effet néfaste sur la compréhension.

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Koslicki, Kathrin. "Talk about stuffs & things : the logic of mass & count names." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11349.

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Ogawa, Mutsumi. "The role of the mass-count distinction in the acquisition of English articles by speakers of an article-less first language." Thesis, University of Essex, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.617041.

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The acquisition of the English article system by speakers of article-less first languages (L1s) has been the subject of considerable research. Much of that research focuses on the extent to which second language (L2) learners interpret articles as markers of definiteness or specificity, and make use of semantic context to determine article choice (Ion in, Ko, & Wexler, 2004; Trenkic, 2008 among many others). The present thesis focuses on the role that noun type (count - mass - dual) plays as one of several factors determining the use of English articles by L2 learners whose Ll is Japanese (a language that lacks articles). Three experiments and a corpus-based frequency study are reported. The first experiment, a lexical decision task undertaken in Japanese with predominantly monolingual speakers of Japanese, aimed to determine how nouns are organised in the Japanese mental lexicon. From the findings it is argued that Japanese nouns are not specified for the mass-count distinction, although noun classifiers are. In the second experiment, a lexical decision task undertaken in English with Japanese L2 learners, it is shown that their English mental lexicons are organised in a similar way to native speakers. It is argued that this is the result of Japanese speakers using the mass-count distinction encoded by classifiers in the Ll to categorize nouns in the L2. The third experiment - a forced-choice article elicitation task - shows that the mass-count distinction is one of a number of factors that determine article choice, along with definiteness, specificity and plural marking. The weight given to each of these factors can vary from individual to individual. A final, corpus-based study of the distribution of article-NP combinations in native English usage (established through a search of the British National Corpus) suggests that the frequency of such combinations may also be a factor in determining article use by Japanese L2 speakers. It is concluded that the use of English articles by L2 speakers from an article-less L1 like Japanese is intricate, but not random, and can be explained by combinations of factors that are theoretically motivated.

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Hamedani, Ladan. "The Function of Number in Persian." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20167.

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This thesis investigates the function of number marking in Persian, within the framework of principles and parameters (P&P), and its relationship to inflectional and derivational number marking. Following the assumption in Distributed Morphology that inflectional and derivational morphology are not distinct, the distribution and properties of number marking in Persian provide evidence for both inflectional and derivational number marking. Assuming the two parameters of number marking (Wiltschko, 2007, 2008), number marking as a functional head and number marking as a modifier, I propose that number marking in Persian is mainly inflectional while number functions as a functional head; moreover, I propose that number marking in Persian can be derivational while number functions as a modifier. This explains that number morphology in Persian is not split to either inflectional or derivational. Rather, following Booij’s (1993, 1995) claim that inflectional morphology can be used contextually as well as inherently, I propose that number morphology in Persian is inflectional while number is a functional head; however, it has inherent residues as a modifier. Considering the functions of inflectional plural morphology in Persian, I argue that the functional category Number Phrase (NumP) is projected in Persian, and number is generated in the head of this functional category. Besides, Persian is a classifier language in which classifiers are in complementary distribution with plural marking. Following Borer’s (2005) discussion of the complementary distribution of plural marking and classifiers in Armenian, I argue that the head of NumP in Persian is either occupied by the plural maker or by full/empty classifiers. Moreover, I show that the presence of bare singulars/plurals in certain syntactic positions in Persian is related to the projection/non-projection of NumP.

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Landman, Fred. Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42711-5.

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Kolmer, Agnes. Zur MASS/COUNT-Distinktion im Bairischen: Artikel und Quantifizierung. Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 1999.

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Moltmann, Friederike, ed. Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lfab.16.

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Davies, Máire Messenger. Practical research methods for media and cultural studies: Making people count. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2007.

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Davies, Máire Messenger. Practical research methods for media and cultural studies: Making people count. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.

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Colloque international de linguistique (1987 Metz, France). Termes massifs et termes comptables: Colloque internationale de linguistique. [Metz]: Université de Metz, Centre d'analyse syntaxique, 1988.

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Mass terms and model-theoretic semantics. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Colloque, international de linguistique (1987 Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Metz Centre d'analyse syntaxique). Termes massifs et termes comptables: Colloque international de linguistique organisé par la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Metz, Centre d'analyse syntaxique (26-27 novembre 1987). Paris: Klincksieck, 1989.

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Kleiber, Georges. L' article LE générique: La généricité sur le mode massif. Genève: Librairie Droz, 1990.

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The bedside, bathtub, and armchair companion to Dracula. New York: Continuum, 2008.

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Lee, David. "Count and Mass Nouns." In English Grammar, 193–201. Second edition. | New York, NY: Routledge, [2018] | Series:: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351164962-38.

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Landman, Fred. "Iceberg Semantics for Count Nouns and Mass Nouns." In Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 161–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42711-5_6.

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Erbach, Kurt, Peter R. Sutton, and Hana Filip. "Bare Nouns and the Hungarian Mass/Count Distinction." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 86–107. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59565-7_5.

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Gillon, Brendan S. "The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns." In Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons, 19–37. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0952-1_2.

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Landman, Fred. "Iceberg Semantics for Count Nouns." In Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 141–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42711-5_5.

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Rothstein, Susan. "The Semantics of Count Nouns." In Logic, Language and Meaning, 395–404. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_40.

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Landman, Fred. "Neat Mass Nouns." In Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 189–226. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42711-5_7.

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Landman, Fred. "Mess Mass Nouns." In Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 227–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42711-5_8.

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Higginbotham, James. "Mass and Count Quantifiers." In Quantification in Natural Languages, 383–419. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0321-3_13.

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Higginbotham, James. "Mass and Count Quantifiers." In Quantification in Natural Languages, 383–419. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2817-1_13.

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Conference papers on the topic "Mass and count nouns"

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Kiss, Tibor, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Halima Husic, and Johanna Poppek. "Issues of Mass and Count: Dealing with `Dual-Life' Nouns." In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017). Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/s17-1023.

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Gordon, Jonathan, and Lenhart K. Schubert. "WordNet Hierarchy Axiomatization and the Mass-Count Distinction." In 2013 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsc.2013.31.

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Kraeva, Svetlana. "Translations Of Proper Nouns In Media Discourse As A Didactic Problem." In III PMMIS 2019 (Post mass media in the modern informational society) "Journalistic text in a new technological environment: achievements and problems". Cognitive-Crcs, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.08.02.39.

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Ni, Zhongxin, and Ting Li. "Negative Binomial Model with an Application to Special Treatment Count Data." In 2011 International Conference on Management and Service Science (MASS 2011). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmss.2011.5998339.

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Graber, James S. "A Template-Count-Limited Search Strategy for Extreme-Mass-Ratio LISA Inspirals." In LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA: 6th International LISA Symposium. AIP, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2405056.

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Amaral, R., T. Jacinto, A. Malinovschi, C. Janson, D. Price, J. Fonseca, and K. Alving. "Interrelationships between body mass index, total IgE, and blood eosinophils count in healthy subjects." In ERS International Congress 2022 abstracts. European Respiratory Society, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2022.412.

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Huang, Bingyi. "Empirical Study on Stock Preferences of China's Stock Mutual Funds Based on the Count Panel Data Model." In 2009 International Conference on Management and Service Science (MASS). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmss.2009.5305261.

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Pétri, Jérôme. "Constraining the mass and moment of inertia of neutron star from quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries." In Fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy at extreme count rates. Trieste, Italy: Sissa Medialab, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.122.0029.

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Yan, Yan, Dong Jixian, Tang Wei, and Feng Shiyuf. "Study on Heat Transfer Performance Affected by Structural Parameters of Multi-Channel Cylinder Dryer." In ASME 2016 5th International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/mnhmt2016-6693.

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An approach to design multi-channel cylinder dryer was proposed. The heat transfer performance and flow characteristic under various structural parameters were analyzed. First, an experiment was designed and set up to measure the condensing heat transfer coefficient and the pressure drop in order to verify the applicability of the Cavallini’s correlation. Then, the relationship among the count of channels, aspect ratio, spacing ratio, width, height and hydraulic diameter of a channel was given. Finally, the correlation of condensing heat transfer and the homogeneous model were introduced in order to observe the heat transfer performance and flow characteristic of the multi-channel cylinder dryer affected by different structures. The study reveals that the structural parameters including count of channels, aspect ratio, spacing ratio of a channel dramatically influence the condensation heat transfer coefficient and frictional resistance of the steam. Based on the selected paper machine, it is suggested that the overall performance of the multi-channel cylinder dryer is best if the count of channels is 150–200, the aspect ratio is 1:3 and the spacing ratio is 1:1–1:3.

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Boutloukos, Stratos, Ka Ho Lo, M. Coleman Miller, and Frederick K. Lamb. "Persistent, intermittent, and undetected accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsations from neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binary systems." In Fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy at extreme count rates. Trieste, Italy: Sissa Medialab, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.122.0015.

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