APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Quantity Processing of Chinese Classifiers and Measure Words

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Cognitive

  • One-Soon Her
    National Chengchi University
  • Ying-Chun Chen
    National Chengchi University
  • Nai-Shing Yen
    National Chengchi University
  • Chia-Chi Chen
    National Chengchi University

Abstract

The current study investigated whether Chinese classifiers and measure words encode certain mathematical values using a priming task. Our results supported that classifiers and measure words encode mathematical values and play the role of multiplicand in relation to the numeral.

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