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Barner, David; Inagaki, Shunji; Li, Peggy – Cognition, 2009
We test the claim that acquiring a mass-count language, like English, causes speakers to think differently about entities in the world, relative to speakers of classifier languages like Japanese. We use three tasks to assess this claim: object-substance rating, quantity judgment, and word extension. Using the first two tasks, we present evidence…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
Li, Peggy; Dunham, Yarrow; Carey, Susan – Cognitive Psychology, 2009
Shown an entity (e.g., a plastic whisk) labeled by a novel noun in neutral syntax, speakers of Japanese, a classifier language, are more likely to assume the noun refers to the substance (plastic) than are speakers of English, a count/mass language, who are instead more likely to assume it refers to the object kind [whisk; Imai, M., & Gentner, D.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Syntax, Linguistics