Form and function: A study on the distribution of the inflectional endings in Italian nouns and adjectives

VN Pescuma, C Zanini, D Crepaldi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Inflectional values, such as singular and plural, sustain agreement relations between
constituents in sentences, allowing sentence parsing and prediction in online processing …

One can be some but some cannot be one: ERP correlates of numerosity incongruence are different for singular and plural

G Arcara, F Franzon, S Gastaldon, S Brotto… - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Humans can communicate information on numerosity by means of number words (eg, one
hundred, a couple), but also through Number morphology (eg, through the singular vs the …

Effects of animacy on the processing of morphological Number: a cognitive inheritance?

C Zanini, R Rugani, D Giomo, F Peressotti… - Word …, 2020 - euppublishing.com
Language encodes into morphology part of the information present in the referential world.
Some features are marked in the great majority of languages, such as the numerosity of the …

The entropy of morphological systems in natural languages is modulated by functional and semantic properties

F Franzon, C Zanini - Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In most natural languages, grammatical gender and number features encode semantic
attributes concerning animacy, sex, and numerosity. Despite the likely advantage of …

Cognitive and communicative pressures in the emergence of grammatical structure: A closer look at whether number sense is encoded in privileged ways

F Franzon, C Zanini, R Rugani - Cognitive neuropsychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In a recent article, Everett (2019) proposed a culturecentered account of the distribution of
the observed values for an almost universal grammatical feature, morphological Number …

Principles of semantic and functional efficiency in grammatical patterning

E Cheng, F Franzon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15865, 2024 - arxiv.org
Grammatical features such as number and gender serve two central functions in human
languages. While they encode salient semantic attributes like numerosity and animacy, they …

Is native quantitative thought concretized in linguistically privileged ways? A look at the global picture

C Everett - Cognitive neuropsychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This work investigates whether reference in speech to certain quantities, namely 1, 2, and 3,
is privileged linguistically due to our brain's native quantitative capacities. It is suggested that …

Embodied and extended numerical cognition

M Johnson, C Everett - Explorations in archaeology and philosophy, 2021 - Springer
In this chapter we consider the theories of embodied cognition and extended mind with
respect to the human ability to engage in numerical cognition. Such an enquiry requires first …

On the Subitizing Effect in Language Contact

F Gardani, C Zanini - Developing Language and Literacy: Studies in Honor …, 2022 - Springer
Numerical cognition is an essential component of our daily life. It is the ability to process
numerical quantities. In language, symbolic representations of numerical quantities are …

[HTML][HTML] Los números en los libros de gramática de Azerbaiyán del siglo XX

ZSS Oglu - Revista Universidad y Sociedad, 2022 - scielo.sld.cu
The article compares grammatical textbooks and grammar books in the Azerbaijani
language published in the 20th century. Its objective is to addresses different approaches …