Plurals as modifiers in Dutch and English noun-noun compounds express plurality in production
| Autor: | Robert Schreuder, Esther Hanssen, Arina Banga, Anneke Neijt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Linguistics and Language
Noun compounds business.industry Computer science Cognitive Neuroscience Object (grammar) Cross linguistic studies (project of Numerosity in Dutch and related languages) computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics Linguistics Language in Mind Native english Morpheme Noun Production (computer science) Haskell Speech Production and Comprehension Artificial intelligence business The algorithmic approach to Dutch verb spelling in between phases of preparation and conclusion computer Natural language processing computer.programming_language Plural |
| Zdroj: | The Mental Lexicon, 8, 1, pp. 53-74 The Mental Lexicon, 8, 53-74 |
| ISSN: | 1871-1340 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/ml.8.1.03ban |
| Popis: | The present study investigates the relation between conceptual plurality and the occurrence of a plural morpheme in novel Dutch and English noun-noun compounds. Using a picture-naming task, we compared the naming responses of native Dutch speakers and native English speakers to pictures depicting either one or multiple instances of the same object serving as a possible modifier in a novel noun-noun compound. While the speakers of both languages most frequently produced novel compounds containing a singular modifier, they also used compounds containing a plural modifier and did this more often to describe a picture with several instances of an object than to describe a picture with one instance of the object. Speakers of English incorporated some regular plurals into the noun-noun compounds they produced. These results contradict the words-and-rules theory of Pinker (1999) and also the semantic constraints for compounding put forth by Alegre and Gordon (1996). Interestingly, it appears, however, that the acceptability constraints put forth by Haskell, MacDonald, and Seidenberg (2003) apply to the production of compounds. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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