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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Classifier Constructions"”.
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Classifier constructions as procedural signs in American Sign Language
… in sign language literature, been termed classifiers and classifier constructions. I will be approaching them from the pragmatic perspective by applying Relevance Theory to explain their usage as representations that manipulate and modify their referents. The data comes from texts signed …
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THE ROLE OF PHONOLOGY AND SEMANTICS IN THE LEXICAL PROCESSING OF ASL CORE LEXICAL ITEMS AND CLASSIFIER CONSTRUCTIONS
… for the first time, investigates the role of classifier constructions in ASL lexical processing. Classifier constructions form an essential part of the sign language lexicon, but have previously not been the foci of psycholinguistic studies. The present study compares processing of classifier …
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The Effect of Output Practice on the Automatization of Korean Morphosyntactic Rules
… for nominative (-ka) and accusative (-reul), and classifier constructions. Twenty-eight native speakers of English were assigned into input and output groups to carry out 15 learning, practice, and test sessions over a 5-week period. Their performance was analyzed in terms of reaction time, error …
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Definiteness and Quantification: Evidence from Shan
… of nominal reference. Looking at bare nouns, classifier constructions, and several types of relative clauses, I develop an account of definiteness and quantification that (i) connects the mass/count distinction to atomicity—providing a unified approach to count and measure quantification, (ii) …