{"id":7622,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/count_-or_countable-_noun\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:51","slug":"count_-or_countable-_noun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/count_-or_countable-_noun\/","title":{"rendered":"Count (or countable) noun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common noun, singular or plural, that refers to a discrete object or objects (e.g., people, places, things) as opposed to some general property, substance or mass that is non-countable (e.g., a person&#8217;s disposition such angriness). &nbsp;Often used incorrectly by adults as &#8220;A large amount of words&#8221; as against &#8220;A large number of words.&#8221; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"general_nominals\">General nominals<\/a>, <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, <a href=\"open-class_words\">Open-class words<\/a>, Proper noun<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common noun, singular or plural, that refers to a discrete object or objects (e.g., people, places, things) as opposed to some general property, substance or mass that is non-countable (e.g., a person&#8217;s disposition such angriness). &nbsp;Often used incorrectly by adults as &#8220;A large amount of words&#8221; as against &#8220;A large number of words.&#8221; &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/count_-or_countable-_noun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Count (or countable) noun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}