The debate over the processing mechanism for inflectional morphology has focused largely on the German plural system because it seems to contain a minority default, a form that has low frequency but high productivity in diverse contexts. Child overgeneralization patterns, phonological similarity effects, restrictions on compounding, reaction times, and neural dissociations have all been used to...

Background: The animal is tremendously challenged to maintain calcium homeostasis. Those that fail can develop milk fever, a clinical disorder that is life threatening to the cow and predisposes the animal to a variety of other disorders. Calcium defi ciency disease is often accompanied with a defi ciency in phosphorus in clinical cases. Blood phosphorus status has also been researched because ...

An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N = 84, 36 male), a language that falls between grammatical and natural-gender languages. We tested whether masculine generic pronoun causes male bias when used in statements—that is, the absence specific referent. two types statements by varying conceptual number, hypothesizing zijn “his” more likely to cause conceptually singula...

PURPOSE To examine the production of plural morphology in children acquiring a dialect of Spanish with syllable-final /s/ lenition with the goal of comparing how plural marker omissions in the speech of these children compare with plural marker omissions in children with language impairment acquiring other varieties of Spanish. METHOD Three production tasks were administered to children. A re...

Abstract The counterfactual comparative account of harm faces problems in cases that involve overdetermination and preemption. An influential strategy for dealing with these problems, drawing on a suggestion made by Derek Parfit, is to appeal plural —several events together harming someone. We argue the most well-known version this strategy, due Neil Feit, as well Magnus Jedenheim Edling’s more...

The processing of the German plural has been examined in a range of behavioral and neurophysiological studies. A number of studies so far showed differences between the processing of the default plural form -s and the irregular plural form -(e)n. While previous studies focused on the examination of generally two plural categories (e.g. -(e)n versus -s), the current study aimed at examining four...

This paper provides an analysis of the syntax of optional plural marking in Yucatec Maya. I argue that plural morphology does not head a functional number projection as has been proposed for a variety of well-known languages, rather it merges as an adjoined modifier to the Determiner Phrase. This analysis explains a number of otherwise curious facts about plural marking in Yucatec Maya: the non...

In this chapter, we investigate the variation in form, syntax and semantics of the plural words found across the Alor-Pantar languages. We study five AP languages: Western Pantar, Teiwa, Abui, Kamang and Wersing. We show that plural words in Alor-Pantar family are diachronically instable: although proto-Alor-Pantar had a plural number word *non, many AP languages have innovated new plural words...

This essay considers the formation of Malaysian social sciences from the viewpoint of the concept of “plural”. It argues the concepts such as “plural society,” “multiculturalism,” and “cultural pluralism,” which often emerge in the analysis of Malayan and Malaysian society. Malaysia has illustrated many types of selfportrait through the concepts of “plural”. The concept of “plural” was firstly ...