Quantity processing of Chinese numeral classifiers: Distance and congruity effects.

A numeral classifier is required between a numeral and a noun in Chinese, which comes in two varieties, sortal classifier (C) and mensural classifier (M). A recent linguistic theory suggests that C/Ms carry quantity information, where C and M converge as the multiplicand, with numeral as the multipl...

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Main Authors: Ying-Chun Chen, One-Soon Her, Nai-Shing Yen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6221336?pdf=render