Sentences that exhibit sensitivity to order (e.g. John and Mary arrived at school in that order and Mary and John arrived at school in that order) present a challenge for the standard formulation of plural logic. In response, some authors have advocated new versions of plural logic based on fine-grained notions of plural reference, such as serial reference [Hewitt 2012] and articulated referenc...

We examine the effects of age and education on the production of variable grammatical morphology among speakers of Yucatec Maya. Our investigation focuses on the use of optional plural morphology when describing pictures of one, two and seven entities performing an action in Yucatec Maya. Our sample (N=69) compares children and adults ranging in age from 5 to 48 years old (mean=19.6, SD=12.1) w...

The goal of this additional section is to further explore the semantic notion of plurality and argue that, in addition to plural reference to collections, natural language interpretation involves a notion of plural discourse reference that is essential for the interpretation of quantificationally dependent pronouns (and anaphoric expressions in general, e.g., definites, partitives, reciprocals ...

We present a case study of verifying the design of a commercial multi-threaded task server (MTTS), developed by the Novabase company, used for massively parallelising computational tasks. In a first stage, we employed the Plural tool, which is designed to perform lightweight verification of Java programs using a Data Flow Analysis (DFA) framework, to specify and verify the MTTS. We wrote the Pl...

The robot studies generally deal with only communication between one robot and one person there have been few discussions of the communication between a robot and plural persons This paper proposes a method enables robot to communicate with plural persons using the selection priority of the partner based on the concept of Proxemics In this method a robot changes sensory motor modality based on ...

We present a computational treatment of the semantics of plural Noun Phrases which extends an earlier approach presented by Scha [7] to be able to deal with multiple-level plurals ("the boys and the girls", "the juries and the committees", etc.) 1 We argue that the arbitrary depth to which such plural structures can be nested creates a correspondingly arbitrary ambiguity in the possibilities fo...

The distinction between singular and plural enters into linguistic phenomena such as morphology, lexical semantics, and agreement, and also must interface with perceptual and conceptual systems that assess numerosity in the world. Three experiments examined how the singular/plural distinction is extracted in real time from the morphological and lexical properties of visually presented words. In...

The present study explores the variation in the plural inflection of eight varieties of Frisian and English, focusing on the irregular plural formations. The aim of the study is to identify and assess the significance of the factors which contributed to the preservation and emergence of irregular plural patterns in the investigated varieties. Multivariate regression analysis, which was employed...

We have examined potential dissociations between lexical and grammatical knowledge in language impairment by investigating noun plurals and plural formation inside compounds in Williams Syndrome (WS) subjects. For comparison, we also report results from studies investigating the same linguistic phenomena in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). We found that nouns taking regular plu...