The Mass-Count Distinction [microform] : Children's Uses of Morpho-Syntactic vs. Semantic Approaches / Virginia C. Gathercole.

Children's acquisition of the mass-count distinction in English was investigated. In order to determine whether children approach the distinction as a morphosyntactic or a semantic distinction, 88 monolingual children aged 3-9 years were asked to judge the acceptability of 32 sentences containi...

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Online Access:	Request ERIC Document
Main Author:	Gathercole, Virginia C.
Corporate Author:	Stanford University. Department of Linguistics
Format:	Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983.
Subjects:	Child Language. Children. English. Language Acquisition. Learning Processes. Nouns. Semantics. Syntax.