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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"plurals"”.
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Event logic and the interpretation of plurals
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1986.
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Keberkesanan carta pembelajaran Omygram terhadap tahap pencapaian pelajar PVMA dalam mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggeris bagi topik plurals
… dalam mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggeris bagi topik plurals. Kajian ini adalah kuasi-eksperimen yang melibatkan dua buah sekolah menengah harian di daerah Batu Pahat. Instrumen kajian yang digunakan ialah soalan ujian pra dan pasca, soal selidik dan senarai semak. Dapatan kajian telah dianalisis …
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Learning, Consolidating, and Generalising Novel Morphology
… morphological systems in natural languages, the plurals varied in their phonological consistency/ambiguity and type/token frequency. Two sets of plurals, distinguished by gender, were trained on two successive days. Experiment 1 revealed that generalisation to novel phonologically ambiguous forms …
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The Nominative-Accusative Neuter Plural in Anatolian
… five chapters contain attestations of neuter plurals, accompanied by philological discussion. Forms have been collected from all texts identified by their ductus as Old or Middle Hittite, from a sampling of Late Hittite texts, and, insofar as possible, from Palaic, Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic …
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Spanish Subjects
… 'a', algun 'some (sg.)' and their corresponding plurals are positive polarity items: they have always wide scope over negation, disregarding their position.
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Scalar implicatures and the grammar of plurality and disjunction
… are relevant not only for the meaning of plurals and disjunctions, but also for their distribution in language. For example, the computation of scalar implicatures will be shown to be the decisive factor regulating the patterns of (un)grammaticality of plural agreement with disjunctive …
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Formation of the plural in English : a study of native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish
… language acquisition--the formation of English plurals. Emphasis was placed on carefully controlled sampling, data collection and analysis procedures in an attempt to provide a methodological model which might prove useful to other investigators in their research. This was a descriptive study, …
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Disentangling morphosyntax from morphophonology: a re-evaluation of morphological priming
… phonological realisation (e.g., /-z/ in regular plurals, /-ən/ as in oxen, /-ə/ as in bacteria or ∅ in fish). However, theories of morphological processing in comprehension and production still widely adopt the notion of morpheme. In this dissertation, I build on the received wisdom in current …
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Elements of number theory
… collective, non-collective and distributive plurals, and cardinality. Syntactic topics include the structure of DP, noun marking, agreement and suppletion. Morphological topics include the inventory of morphological operations, the featural basis of complex syncretisms, the difference between …
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Neg-raising : polarity and presupposition
… predicates to that of negated definite plurals.
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Incorporating a feature tree geometry into a matcher for a speech recognizer
… production of morphemic stems, in particular, plurals, and the process of word retrieval. The last component is not implemented with the feature tree, but the implications of a tree-based matcher are explored. Initially, a brief overview of the lexical access system is presented for the …
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Les teories conspiracionistes i negacionistes davant la Covid-19: Una perspectiva antropològica
… gent; concloent així que es tracten de moviments plurals i que atrauen persones molt diverses, erigint-se, per a molts individus, com un refugi social davant la incertesa.
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Production and comprehension of verb agreement morphology in Spanish and English child L2 learners: evidence for the effects of morphological structure
… high accuracy in producing Spanish 3rd person plurals and performed native-like in comprehending verbal agreement. In contrast, the children learning English exhibited low accuracy in both the production and comprehension of verbal agreement (3rd person singular -s), and did not reach …
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Creating an SLI performance profile with load
The purpose of this body of work was to gain a clearer understanding of the potential cognitive factors that may contribute to Specific Language Impairment (SLI). This study attempted to simulate a performance profile of SLI in typically developing children within a grammaticality judgment task, …