The mass-count distinction in Dutch-speaking children with specific language impairment
This study reports experimental data on the acquisition of the mass-count distinction by Dutch-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). While verbal morphosyntax is known to be impaired in SLI, nominal morphosyntax has received less attention. The mass-count distinction provides an interesting test ground: count can have a plural morpheme: bal-en (‘balls’), but mass cannot: *deeg-en (‘doughs’). Flexible nouns can easily occur in either mass or count syntax (pizza/pizza-s). Finally, object-mass nouns (e.g. furniture) are syntactically mass, but quantify over individuals, and a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Open Library of Humanities
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Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26634460 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.370 |