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14 - The Role of Context and Cognition in Countability: A Psycholinguistic Account of Lexical Distributions
from New Empirical Approaches to the Semantics of the Count–Mass Distinction
- By Francesca Franzon, Giorgio Arcara, Chiara Zanini
Edited by Tibor Kiss, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, University of Alberta, Halima Husić, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
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Things and Stuff

Published online:

21 May 2021

Print publication:

10 June 2021, pp 321-336
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Summary

Linguistic theory has provided different formalizations regarding the issue of countability, but it has hardly ever measured the occurrence of nouns as mass and as count in language use. This work illustrates a rating study on subjective frequency of Italian nouns inflected in the singular and in the plural. The rating scores were compared to the corpus frequency of nouns in mass and count contexts. The results suggest that in Italian almost every noun can occur as countable. Moreover, negative correlations were never found between the count use and the mass use of nouns. These results are discussed with respect to the different theoretical accounts.