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Chinese ESL Learners ’ Understanding of the English Count-Mass Distinction
"... This paper investigates Chinese ESL learners ’ understanding of the English count-mass distinction. We first examine the parametric difference between English and Chinese with respect to noun denotations, and discuss related issues of L2 learning. Next, we report findings on learners ’ knowledge of ..."
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This paper investigates Chinese ESL learners ’ understanding of the English count-mass distinction. We first examine the parametric difference between English and Chinese with respect to noun denotations, and discuss related issues of L2 learning. Next, we report findings on learners ’ knowledge
Count-mass Distinction in the Acquisition of English Articles by Persian Learners of English
, 2012
"... Abstract Articles in general and definite articles in particular can create problems even long after all other aspects of English have been mastered. The present article investigated the learnability problems related to the acquisition of count-mass distinction of English nominals by Persian L2 lea ..."
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Abstract Articles in general and definite articles in particular can create problems even long after all other aspects of English have been mastered. The present article investigated the learnability problems related to the acquisition of count-mass distinction of English nominals by Persian L2
Stubborn Distributivity, Multiparticipant Nouns and the Count/Mass Distinction *
"... There are predicates that I call “stubbornly distributive ” based on what happens when they are combined with plural count noun phrases. I will use these stubbornly distributive predicates to identify and analyze a certain subset of mass nouns which I call “multi-participant nouns”. Traffic and rubb ..."
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There are predicates that I call “stubbornly distributive ” based on what happens when they are combined with plural count noun phrases. I will use these stubbornly distributive predicates to identify and analyze a certain subset of mass nouns which I call “multi-participant nouns”. Traffic
A Small Fan and a Small Handful of Fans Exploring the Acquisition of Count-mass Distinction in Mandarin
"... The count-mass distinction often served as a test case for asking how syntax and semantics are related, whether knowledge of one helps the acquisition of the other. Virtually no studies examined this distinction in classifier languages which supposedly lack the distinction. However, Cheng and Sybesm ..."
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The count-mass distinction often served as a test case for asking how syntax and semantics are related, whether knowledge of one helps the acquisition of the other. Virtually no studies examined this distinction in classifier languages which supposedly lack the distinction. However, Cheng
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"... The count-mass distinction in typically developing and grammatically specifically language impaired children: New evidence on the role of syntax and semantics Karen Froud a, Heather K.J. van der Lely b,* ..."
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The count-mass distinction in typically developing and grammatically specifically language impaired children: New evidence on the role of syntax and semantics Karen Froud a, Heather K.J. van der Lely b,*
Interpretation of Korean Common Nouns Beom-mo Kang
"... In this paper, I will try to give a semantics of Korean common nouns in light of Link's (1983) semantic theory on denotations of plurals and mass terms. First, I will show that the count/mass distinction of common nouns is as important in Korean as in English, although the distinction is blurre ..."
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In this paper, I will try to give a semantics of Korean common nouns in light of Link's (1983) semantic theory on denotations of plurals and mass terms. First, I will show that the count/mass distinction of common nouns is as important in Korean as in English, although the distinction
Evaluating the semantic categories hypothesis: the case of the mass/count distinction
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, 1985
"... It is often claimed that grammatical categories are initially acquired via their semantic properties. In the case of the count/mass distinction, semantic corre-lations should predispose the child to acquire the countlmass subcategories as a distinction between names for objects vs. substances. This ..."
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It is often claimed that grammatical categories are initially acquired via their semantic properties. In the case of the count/mass distinction, semantic corre-lations should predispose the child to acquire the countlmass subcategories as a distinction between names for objects vs. substances
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