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Journal articles on the topic "English Plurals"

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AL-JARF, Reima. "Issues in translating English and Arabic plurals." Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education 13 (December 1, 2020): 7–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2020.13.1.

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This study explores undergraduate students’ difficulties in translating English and Arabic plurals. The results of an English and Arabic plural translation test exhibited cases where Arabic plurals matching those in English were translated correctly. However, the students had difficulty translating the following: (i) Arabic plurals with a singular English equivalent, e.g., مجوهرات /mujawharaat/ jewellery; (ii) Arabic duals with two different singular stems, e.g., الرافدان the Tigris and Euphrates; (iii) multiple Arabic plurals, i.e. plurals of paucity and multiplicity, e.g., دجاج /dajaaj/ chic
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IONIN, TANIA, SILVINA MONTRUL, and MÓNICA CRIVOS. "A bidirectional study on the acquisition of plural noun phrase interpretation in English and Spanish." Applied Psycholinguistics 34, no. 3 (2012): 483–518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716411000841.

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ABSTRACTThis paper investigates how learners interpret definite plural noun phrases (e.g., the tigers) and bare (article-less) plural noun phrases (e.g., tigers) in their second language. Whereas Spanish allows definite plurals to have both generic and specific readings, English requires definite plurals to have specific, nongeneric readings. Generic readings in English are expressed with bare plurals, which are ungrammatical in Spanish in preverbal subject position. Two studies were conducted in order to investigate the role of first language transfer in this domain in both English → Spanish
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Gardelle, Laure. "Lexical plurals for aggregates of discrete entities in English." Lexical plurals and beyond 39, no. 2 (2016): 355–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.39.2.08lga.

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This paper studies why, for a plurality of discrete entities, a non-count plural might be preferred over a count noun or a non-count singular. Building partly on Wierzbicka (1985, 1988), it proposes two parameters: semantics, but also morphology. With lexical plurals, the items are construed as being of different kinds (vs. count nouns) and the focus is on the plurality of items rather than on a common purpose (vs. non-count singulars). For morphology, the notion of ‘attractor’ is proposed for some patterns which partly motivate the [±count] and number features. A collateral finding is that th
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Berent, Iris, and Steven Pinker. "The dislike of regular plurals in compounds." Mental Lexicon 2, no. 2 (2007): 129–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ml.2.2.03ber.

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English speakers disfavor compounds containing regular plurals compared to irregular ones. Haskell, MacDonald and Seidenberg (2003) attribute this phenomenon to the rarity of compounds containing words with the phonological properties of regular plurals. Five experiments test this proposal. Experiment 1 demonstrated that novel regular plurals (e.g., loonks-eater) are disliked in compounds compared to irregular plurals with illicit (hence less frequent) phonological patterns (e.g., leevk-eater, plural of loovk). Experiments 2–3 found that people show no dispreference for compounds containing no
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Tretiakova, Elizaveta S. "Japanese EFL Learners’ Interpretation оf Plural Morphology". Journal of Psycholinguistic, № 4 (23 грудня 2020): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.30982/2077-5911-2020-46-4-122-133.

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This article examines Japanese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ acquisition of meaning of the English plural marker -s. The main goal of the article is to experimentally investigate whether EFL learners are able to assign a plural-only reading to plural -s. The author conducted a Truth Value Judgement experiment with Japanese intermediate learners and found that they understood bare plurals in a different way than native speakers do. In singular scenarios, Japanese EFL learners failed to reject bare plural statements (e.g. Black Bear has cars) while they successfully rejected nume
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Al-Jarf, Reima. "Difficulties in Learning English Plural Formation by EFL College Students." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 6 (2022): 111–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.6.13.

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Freshman students at the College of Languages and Translation received direct instruction in plural formation. Instruction covered regular plural nouns, irregular plural nouns, plural formation of words ending in –f, and –o, nouns that have the same plural and singular form, and words with Latin and foreign plurals. The students did all the exercises in the textbook, then took an immediate test a week after instruction and a delayed test at the end of the semester (3 months later). Responses were scored and a corpus of 3099 errors was collected from both tests. No significant differences were
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Choi, Sea Hee, and Tania Ionin. "Plural marking in the second language: Atomicity, definiteness, and transfer." Applied Psycholinguistics 42, no. 3 (2021): 549–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716420000569.

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AbstractThis paper examines whether second language (L2)-English learners whose native languages (L1; Korean and Mandarin) lack obligatory plural marking transfer the properties of plural marking from their L1s, and whether transfer is manifested both offline (in a grammaticality judgment task) and online (in a self-paced reading task). The online task tests the predictions of the morphological congruency hypothesis (Jiang 2007), according to which L2 learners have particular difficulty automatically activating the meaning of L2 morphemes that are incongruent with their L1. Experiment 1 tests
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Gardelle, Laure. "Are there any collective nouns among lexical plurals in English?" Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 63, no. 1 (2017): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2017.40.

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AbstractThe grammatical tradition has excluded lexical plurals from the category of collective nouns on the sole basis of their morphology (no discrepancy between singular form and so-called plural reference); but this criterion has led to hesitations, some linguists including, for instance,cattleorpeople. This study therefore considers other, semantic, criteria to establish more convincingly whether lexical plurals that denote pluralities of entities may be collective nouns. Relying on distinctions between meronymy and (non-taxonomic) hyperonymy, collectiveness and cohesion, and(a) crew(colle
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Mauri, Caterina, and Andrea Sansò. "Nouns & co. Converging evidence in the analysis of associative plurals." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 72, no. 4 (2019): 603–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0023.

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Abstract A morphosyntactic peculiarity that separates proper names from (most) other noun types is their ability to occur in a special type of plural, called associative plural, whose meaning is X and X’s associated person(s). In this paper, we apply a ‘converging evidence’ methodology to the analysis of associative plurals, by providing a diachronic typology of these plurals through the identification of the more frequent sources of associative plural markers that are attested in a sample of 80 languages, and by looking for emerging constructions for the expression of associative plurality in
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Pryimak, Dmytro. "Exotic Plural Forms of Foreign Currency Names in English, French, and Italian: Grammatical, Lexicographical, and Translation (from/into Ukrainian) Perspectives." Studies About Languages, no. 35 (December 5, 2019): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.0.35.21962.

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This article analysed exotic plural forms of loanwords denoting foreign currency names in the English, French, and Italian languages, the specificities of their translation from/into Ukrainian and presentation in Ukrainian bilingual dictionaries. The findings of the research prove that there is no unequivocal approach to the use of either exotic or adapted plurals in the names of foreign currencies and coins in English, French, and Italian. The analysis of academic materials within this research allows a recommendation to consult dictionaries for correct exotic plural forms in all the three la
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "English Plurals"

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Симоненко, Наталія Олександрівна, Наталия Александровна Симоненко, and Nataliia Oleksandrivna Symonenko. "Irregular plural from Latin and Greek." Thesis, Інтер графіка, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/26705.

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Williams, Thomas Richard. "Plural perspectives in the social observation of John Clare." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/9076.

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My thesis examines social observation in the poetry of John Clare, focusing on his work in the years before he was committed to an asylum in 1837. The project illuminates a plurality of perspectives in his poetry that has not been fully recognized in previous critical studies. It resituates the conventional scholarly approach to Clare, which has been preoccupied by an overly oppositional conception of the ‘two cultures’ that he inhabited: the oral and the literary. My thesis positions him as an intellectually curious seeker whose poetry is invigorated by his experience of different value syste
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Cheng, Yonghong. "English non-plural nouns in -s : a survey and corpus-based study." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1395455.

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The English suffix -s is usually used to mark third person singular present tense, noun plurals, possessives, and in some adverbs, but it is also used in words like news, linguistics, measles, billiards, belongings, riches, oats, shivers, scissors, etc. In the literature so far, words like these have been studied mainly from the diachronic perspective, according to their morphological features and within the realm of count and mass nouns, and the suffix -s has been called a plural marker, possessive marker, pseudo-morpheme, or nominalizer. But these functions identified for the English suffix
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Hotta, Ryuichi. "The development of the nominal plural forms in early Middle English." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419184.

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Al-Shehri, Amira Abdullah. "Regular plural inside English compounds within the theory of base-driven stratification." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9836.

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This literature-based thesis studies the phenomenon of the regular plural inside compounds according to Giegerich’s (1999) stratal model of English morphology. The strata of his model are defined by their bases: stratum 1 is root-based and stratum 2 is word-based. The model overcomes the failings associated with earlier stratal models defined by their affixes (e.g., Kiparsky, 1982). However, assigning compounding and the regular plural to the same word stratum following Giegerich’s (1999) model leaves an open question in terms of what restricts the interaction between both rules to prevent the
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Dirdal, Hildegunn. "Second language acquisition of articles and plural marking by Bengali learners of English." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614806.

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Aguilar, Amanda G. "Present tense marking as a synopsis of Southern American English: Plural verbal -s and zero 3rd singular." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4797/.

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This thesis explores the evolution plural verbal -s ("People thinks he is guilty") and zero 3rd singular ("He think he is guilty") in data from two sources on Southern English: The Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) and The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS). The research questions that underlie this study consider (1) the demographic association of plural verbal -s and zero 3rd singular, (2) the maintenance of each form, (3) the constraints on their use, and (4) the origins of -s variability. The atlas data suggest the following for plural verbal -s: (
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Souza, Helena Beatriz Mascarenhas de. "Práticas bem sucedidas de professores de inglês em escolas públicas: sujeitos singulares, possibilidades plurais." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2013. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br:8080/handle/prefix/3189.

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MacQueen, Donald Sims. "The integration of million into the English system of number words a diachronic study." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1002142504/04.

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Yokota, Yumi. "Studies in the plural demonstratives in Middle English texts from the West Riding of Yorkshire." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439143.

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Books on the topic "English Plurals"

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Rick, DeMonico, ed. Best friends: Plurals. Scholastic, 2006.

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Cleary, Brian P. Feet and puppies, thieves and guppies: What are irregular plurals? Millbrook Press, 2011.

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Cleary, Brian P. Feet and puppies, thieves and guppies: What are irregular plurals? Millbrook Press, 2011.

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Pessoa, Fernando. Fernando Pessoa: Plural como el universo : antología poética. Editorial Panapo, 1992.

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Tyler, Colin. Idealist political philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition. Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006.

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Jennifer, Brady, and Oscar Wilde Centre, eds. Incorrigibly plural: Fiction and poetry from the M Phil in Creative Writing at the Oscar Wilde Centre, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Lemon Soap Press, 2006.

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Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds. The English novel in history, 1840-1895. Routledge, 1997.

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S, Haney William, and Pagan Nicholas 1953-, eds. The changing face of English literary and cultural studies in a transnational environment. Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.

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Jennifer, Brady, and Oscar Wilde Centre, eds. Incorrigibly plural: Fiction and poetry from the M Phil in Creative Writing at the Oscar Wilde Centre, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Lemon Soap Press, 2006.

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Inc, ebrary, ed. Embracing the other: Addressing xenophobia in the new literatures in English. Rodopi, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "English Plurals"

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Liu, Yi, and Kook-Hee Gil. "Chapter 4. Second language acquisition of English plurals by Chinese learners." In Language Acquisition and Language Disorders. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lald.70.04liu.

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Previous research supported the proposal that multiplicity inferences (i.e., the more than one interpretation) associated with English plural morphology are scalar implicatures (Tieu et al., 2014). The current study extends the research to second language (L2) acquisition by testing Chinese-speaking learners of English. Using a Truth Value Judgment Task (TVJT) adapted from Tieu et al. (2014), we compared the interpretations of English bare plurals among Chinese adult learners and native English speakers. Results indicate that the interpretive pattern of Chinese learners closely aligns with tha
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Bauer, Laurie, and I. S. P. Nation. "Plurals of Nouns." In English Morphology for the Language Teaching Profession. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367855222-4.

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Wallwork, Adrian. "Nouns: countable vs uncountable, plurals." In English for Academic Research. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31517-6_9.

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Wallwork, Adrian. "Nouns: plurals, countable versus uncountable, etc." In English for Academic Research. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53168-2_1.

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Wallwork, Adrian. "Nouns: plurals, countable versus uncountable." In English for Research: Grammar, Usage and Style. Springer US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1593-0_1.

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Wallwork, Adrian. "Acronyms: usage, grammar, plurals, punctuation." In English for Research: Grammar, Usage and Style. Springer US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1593-0_22.

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Mohr, Susanne. "Unstandardized plurals in African English corpus data." In Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129301-4.

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Wallwork, Adrian. "Nouns: plurals, countable versus uncountable, etc." In English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises. Springer US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4289-9_1.

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Chierchia, Gennaro. "Factivity Meets Polarity: On Two Differences Between Italian Versus English Factives." In The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04438-1_6.

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Cohen, Ariel. "The information structure of bare plurals in English and Italian." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.100.27coh.

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Conference papers on the topic "English Plurals"

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Caruntu-Caraman, Livia. "Anglicisms in DOOM3 : Registration and Norming." In Conferinta stiintifica nationala "Lecturi în memoriam acad. Silviu Berejan", Ediția 6. “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/lecturi.2023.06.12.

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Being a dynamic system, the language continuously evolves and perfects its means of expression simultaneously with the transformations in society and technological progress. Currently, the foreign lexical elements, especially from English, represent one of the main sources of enriching the Romanian language vocabulary. As long as the use of Anglicisms cannot be prevented, they must be recorded in a correct form, with recommendations regarding their adaptation to the norms of the language. In the present study, we examine the behavior of Anglicisms in the third edition of DOOM with special refe
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