Application of Cognitive Strategies to Chinese Noun Classifier E-learning (short paper)
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چکیده
Linguistically, a noun classifier is a morpheme or word used to classify a noun according to its inherent semantic features. Noun classifiers in Chinese are obligatory as a category of its own and used to specify a noun when it is used with a determiner or a numeral. In other words, classifiers are never used independently. It must occur with a numeral (e.g., yi “one”, er “two”, san “three”) and/or a determiner (e.g., zhe “this”, nei “that”), or certain quantifiers (e.g., ji “how many”, mei “every”) before the noun. Such a combination is referred to as a classifier phrase. Its basic construction can be illustrated in the following schema:
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