Two studies investigated 3- to 5-year-olds' trust in a reliable informant when judging novel labels and novel plural and past tense forms. In Study 1, children (N = 24) endorsed the names of new objects given by an informant who had earlier labeled familiar objects correctly over the names given by an informant who had labeled the same objects incorrectly. In Study 2, children (N = 24) endorsed...

Recent explorations in formal pragmatics provide ample argumentation and some experimental support to the claim that plural nominal morphology does not lexically encode plurality but rather triggers a plurality inference of a pragmatic nature (Sauerland 2003, Sauerland, Andersen & Yatsushiro 2005; Spector 2007; Sauerland 2008; Magri 2014, Ivlieva 2013, Tieu et al 2014, Mayr 2015). This claim is...

Traditional centralized business process management approaches pose difficulties in coping with rapid changes and evolving process models. We developed the Plural method to allow for decentralized modeling of processes. The Plural method enables process participants, rather than a centralized group of process engineers or managers, to model and maintain their processes. In previous works, we in...

T LNDERLXNG CATEGORY OF PLURAL, along with its morphological expression by way of the suffix -s, has been considered a robust, if variable, feature of African-American English grammar at least since Harrison (1884) observed that "the Negro forms the plural regularly by addition of s or 2." (225). Subsequent empirical research on different varieties of contemporary African-American Vernacular En...

Understanding how linguistic cues map to the environment is crucial for early language comprehension and may provide a way for bootstrapping and learning words. Research has suggested that learning how plural syntax maps to the perceptual environment may show a trajectory in which children first learn surrounding cues (verbs, modifiers) before a full mastery of the noun morpheme alone. The Span...

In Mexico City Spanish, plural morphology is always overtly realized but in Chilean Spanish, due to a lenition process that targets syllable-final [s], plural morphology is not always realized, and the conditions of overt realization of plural morphology are subject to both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. In this paper we show that variability in the input for grammatical morphology ca...

BACKGROUND In low-resource settings, patients' use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known regarding patterns, drivers and consequences of using multiple healthcare sources. We therefore investigated factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare usage among patients tak...

Background: The animal is tremendously challenged to maintain calcium homeostasis. Those that fail can develop milk fever, a clinical disorder that is life threatening to the cow and predisposes the animal to a variety of other disorders. Calcium defi ciency disease is often accompanied with a defi ciency in phosphorus in clinical cases. Blood phosphorus status has also been researched because ...

In order to formulate truth-conditionally satisfactor* semantics in a compositional. manner, model-iiieoretic semanticists sometimes posit morphology-semantics mismatches. Among them are Kamp and Reyle (1993), who occasionally ignore English plural morphology in constructing their analysis of anaphora. Our goal in this paper is to demonstrate that natural language morphology is a better guide f...