Examples of count noun

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It does not of course hold for perfectives, the analog of count nouns.
Again standard practice would have required the plural morpheme had the nouns been count nouns.
This may explain how children come to know that number words are restricted to count nouns.
The main finding from this analysis, then, is that children and their parents only use number words with count nouns.
Otherwise, the plural nouns would also have to be assigned to another part of speech than singular count nouns.
The licensing of count nouns as arguments can be implemented by articles, by the plural, by demonstratives, by quantifiers.
Of the nouns occurring in the transcript cuts, only count nouns and mass nouns are selected.
In sum, count nouns, but never mass nouns, co-occurred with number words, a pattern of usage shared by some but not all other quantifiers.
Previous research on how caregivers teach words to young children has focused heavily on count nouns, terms that designate object categories.
Such errors suggest that children at this point in development are not using syntactic information to determine the appropriate form of count nouns.
Accordingly, only count nouns can occur in the singular and in the plural.
For instance, particular determiners can only be followed by plural count nouns.
Learners tended to accept count nouns in mass contexts (using the mass quantifier much) more often than when they were abstract nouns.
They did not show a strong distinction between number words and adjectives, however, as adjectives were also predominantly used with count nouns.
Both of these results suggest that children may initially be relying on a referential strategy to determine the form of count nouns.
The specific grammatical property measured was obligatory grammatical number marking on count nouns.
All nouns in the sentences were count nouns, and their plural forms were regular.
These data show that even the youngest children can make use of referential information to determine the appropriate form of count nouns.
If, on the other hand, children rely solely on syntactic context to determine the form of count nouns, then they should produce the singular and plural forms at random.
Children have to learn the difference between cup and dog (both count nouns), big and small (both adjectives), and two and six (both quantifiers of precise numerosity).
How 2- and 4-year-old children interpret adjectives and count nouns.
As far as quantification is concerned, it again appears that collectives do not automatically fit into either the class of count nouns or that of mass nouns.
Thus, the deformable things that young children know how to name are like rigid things in that they are both solid and both named by count nouns.
They found that this segment of the early noun vocabulary is dominated by count nouns that name rigid objects in categories well organized by similarity in shape.
Foundational issues in the learning of proper names, count nouns and mass nouns.
Red bluebirds and black greenflies : preschoolers' understanding of the semantics of adjectives and count nouns.
Foundational issues in the learning of proper names, count nouns, and mass nouns.
The development of a linkage between count nouns and object categories : evidence from 15- to 21-month-old infants.
They are distinct from other quantifiers, such as much (which can only co-occur with mass nouns), and all (which can co-occur with both count nouns and mass nouns).
Perceptual complexity and form class cues in novel word extension tasks : how 4-year-old children interpret adjectives and count nouns.
Retained are singular count nouns.
The fact, for instance, that every co-occurs with singular count nouns can be naturally expressed in terms of a requirement which the determiner imposes on the noun.
How two- and four-year-old children interpret adjectives and count nouns.
The answer may lie in the fact that plural count nouns that denote measures of time or space can be construed as establishing reference to a single individual.
Taken together these results suggest that starting from about two years of age children can use both referential and syntactic information to determine the morpho-syntactic form of count nouns.
However, suppletive use of "less" and "least" with count nouns is common in many contexts, some of which attract criticism as nonstandard or low-prestige.
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