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标题：Quantity judgment and the mass-count distinction across languages: Advances, problems, and future directions for research
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作者：Alan Bale ; David Barner
期刊名称：Glossa
电子版ISSN：2397-1835
出版年度：2018
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：63-85
DOI：10.5334/gjgl.536
出版社：Ubiquity Press
摘要：We review advances in the experimental study of the mass-count distinction and highlight problems that have emerged. First, we lay out what we see to be the scientific enterprise of studying the syntax and semantics of the mass-count distinction, and the assumptions we believe must be made if additional progress is to occur, especially as the empirical facts continue to grow in number and complexity. Second, we discuss the new landscape of cross-linguistic results that has been created by widespread use of the quantity judgment task, and what these results tell us about the nature of the mass-count distinction. Finally, we discuss the relationship between the mass-count distinction and non-linguistic cognition, and in particular the object-substance distinction.
关键词：mass-count; semantics; object-substance; quantification; quantity judgment