“Children” is a plural noun. “Child” is the singular noun. Children are wonderful creatures. The children are playing in the park. The children are very tired. The children love the zoo. The children do their homework...
The quick answer is that “child” is a singular noun and “children” is a plural noun. “Children” is a plural noun even though it doesn’t have an -s. Even so, we must agree with the subject of the sentence (children) and use “are.” “Children” is a collective noun.A col...
Two experiments investigated the factors that govern children's use of singular and plural forms of count nouns. Experiment 1 used an elicited production task to investigate whether children use referential and/or syntactic information to determine the form of the count nouns when the two sources of...
The English language, but not Japanese, requires grammatical differentiation of nouns for singular and plural forms (e.g., cat versus cats). The present study investigated whether this grammatical difference constrains the development of preschool children's attention to sets of 'one' versus 'more ...
Noteworthy is thatcpb-lexhas strong correlations with previous child input norms,cbeebies,cbbc,dpband a weaker correlation tosubtlex-uk, suggesting that it measures a construct similar to previous children’s lexicons (van Heuven et al.,2014). Cpb-lexfrequencies are more strongly correlated with...
There was a marked increase in comprehension scores with age and receptive vocabulary scores in singular, but not in plural sentences. This pattern was present regardless of how number was marked. Experiment 2 (N = 45, age 3;4-4;9) replicated the key findings of Experiment 1. The results...
Noun - Vocative Neuter PluralStrong's 5040: A little child. Diminutive of teknon; an infant, i.e. darlings.{let} no oneμηδεὶς (mēdeis)Adjective - Nominative Masculine SingularStrong's 3367: No one, none, nothing. deceiveπλανάτω (planatō)Verb - Present Imperative ...
In sum, we have provided a straightforward answer to the question of why children’s interpretational behavior under Pattern 1 with incremental theme verbs is not found in Russian-like languages: non-exhaustive readings of either plural or singular NPs are not licensed in the first place with ve...
The adoption of gender-neutral pronouns, like the singular ‘they’, which gained recognition when Merriam-Webster named it the word of the year in 2019, underscores an ongoing challenge to binary norms. In this paper, we define ‘nonbinary’ as an umbrella term encompassing individuals who ...
This paper analyzes the effects of child language acquisition as a critical factor in a morphological change, namely, the replacement of the etymologically singular second person paradigm ( tuteo ) by its plural counterpart ( voseo ) in 19th century Río