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Milestone 5: Draft Article on Determiners

An experimental study on the "Conservativity and Learnability of Determiners" (Hunter & Lidz, 2013), found that cross-linguistically, determiners express conservative relations (such as every, some, most) and never express non-conservative relations. Learnability of a novel determiner (conservative vs non-conservative) was tested on children aged 4-6, and confirmed that theories of natural language semantics, which rule out non-conservative determiners, should be preferred.

Another cross-linguistic study on "Bare Classifiers and Definiteness" (Simpson, Soh & Nomoto, 2011), found general patterns of bare classifiers in languages such as Cantonese and Vietnamese, which are able to express a definite reference, compared with languages such as Mandarin, which have a bare noun pattern for definite reference instead.

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LING300 is fun [fʌn].

Group D3 (Determiners) is the best!

--Saulina.w (talk) 22:33, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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