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Tsang, Cara; Chambers, Craig G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Cantonese shape classifiers encode perceptual information that is characteristic of their associated nouns, although certain nouns are exceptional. For example, the classifier "tiu" occurs primarily with nouns for long-narrow-flexible objects (e.g., scarves, snakes, and ropes) and also occurs with the noun for a (short, rigid) key. In 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comprehension, Semantics, Nouns