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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"quantifiers"”.
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Comparative quantifiers
… is to present a novel analysis of comparative quantifiers such as more than three students. The prevalent view on such expressions advocated in Generalized Quantifier Theory is that they denoted generalized quantifiers ranging over individuals - entirely on a par with expressions like every …
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Ensembles of Quantifiers
… proponiendo los llamados EoQ (Ensembles of Quantifiers) y nuestros experimentos demuestran que los EoQ tienen más precisión que cuantificadores individuales, incluso cuando las estrategias de combinación usadas son triviales. Además, la tesis propone medidas de selección diseñadas para …
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Executing Quantifiers in FASE Specifications
… domains in the FASE specification language. Quantifiers not only provide an extremely powerful language constuct, but due to the highly abstract nature of the FASE specification method, some specifications cannot be written without the use of quantifiers. This dissertation describes a method …
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Subset comparatives as comparative quantifiers
… and Alxatib (2013)'s analyses of comparative quantifiers (more than three) to develop a unified account for both. This analysis entails that subset comparatives are formed via ellipsis of a clausal source; I provide evidence for this claim and against previous analyses that give subset …
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Can our quantifiers range over all collections?
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1984.
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Human and artificial intelligence acquisition of quantifiers
… paper is concerned with constraints on learning quantifiers, particularly those cognitive on human learning and algorithmic on machine learning, and the resulting implications of those constraints on language identification. Previous experiments show that children attempting to differentiate …
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Learning the Meaning of Quantifiers from Language and Vision
Defining the meaning of vague quantifiers (‘few’, ‘most’, ‘all’) has been, and still is, the Holy Grail of a mare magnum of studies in philosophy, logic, and linguistics. The way by which they are learned by children has been largely investigated in the realm of language acquisition, and the …
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Floating and Non-floating Quantifiers in Hijazi Arabic: an HPSG Analysis
… and analysis of floating and non-floating quantifiers in Hijazi Arabic (HA) within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). This work is a contribution to the long-standing debate on the relation between floating and non-floating quantifiers. It investigates the …
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Integrating dual-process and pragmatic theories for the processing of verbal and numerical food quantifiers
… in people’s processing of verbal and numerical quantifiers, with a specific focus on quantifiers used to convey food information. Chapter 1 gives a brief overview of the theoretical and applied literature. Chapter 2 (Experiments 1-2) discusses the substantial inter-individual variance found in …
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Kvantifikátory typu MÁLO a MNOHO v českém znakovém jazyce
This bachelor thesis focuses on the quantifiers of the type FEW/LITTLE and A-LOT-OF in Czech sign language. The focus of the thesis is a long-term systematic excerpt of utterances and whole speeches containing signs with the meaning of 'few' and 'many' in Czech Sign Language. The aim of the work is …
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The syntactic and semantic roots of floating quantification
Through the study of floating quantifiers in a variety of languages, I demonstrate that floating quantification is not a uniform phenomenon and outline a series of puzzles that force us to adopt a two-part analysis. I argue that certain floating quantifiers are related to their nominal associate by …
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Universal quantification in the nominal domain in American Sign Language
… of quantification by means of lexical universal quantifiers and aspectual marking on directional verbs. In addition, I describe universal interpretations in sentences with definite plural and mass noun phrases and in sentences with predicates conveying total affectedness of the patient/theme …
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Cumulativity from Homogeneity
Since Schein (1996), cumulative readings of quantifiers have often motivated a departure from standard assumptions about composition. This dissertation proposes a new theory of these cumulative readings that connects them to the phenomenon of homogeneity. Specifically, taking inspiration from …
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Decision Problems in the Lattice of P01 Classes
… in prenex normal form with all universal quantifiers preceding all existential quantifiers, and the AE-theory of a structure is the set of all AE-sentences true in the structure. In Chapter 3 we show that the AE-theory of ( LP01 , ∩, ∪, 0, 1) is decidable. In Chapter 4 we show that …
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Spanish Subjects
Finally, I also find that the quantifiers un 'a', algun 'some (sg.)' and their corresponding plurals are positive polarity items: they have always wide scope over negation, disregarding their position.
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Learning and the language of thought
… can be applied to children's acquisition of quantifiers. The model explains how children may achieve adult competence with quantifiers' literal meanings and presuppositions, and predicts several of the most-studied errors children make while learning these words. Finally, we model adult …
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The Logic of Subtractives or, Barely anyone tried almost as hard as me
… which they are, across their uses, modifiers of quantifiers, encoding set subtraction; "barely," but not "almost", additionally contributes negation. Both modifiers remove elements from the arguments of quantifiers that they modify, and require exhaustification for their licensing as modifiers. …
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Game comonads and beyond: compositional constructions for logic and algorithms
… of quantification, including limited counting quantifiers and unary generalised quantifiers. Secondly, we show how to construct a new family of game comonads $\mathbb{H}$<sub>*n,k*</sub> which capture logics extended by generalised quantifiers of all arities. This construction leads to new …
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The interpretation and use of numerically-quantified expressions
… literature. Firstly, with respect to superlative quantifiers, I show how this model provides an alternative account to that of Geurts and Nouwen (2007), building upon that offered by Cummins and Katsos (2010), and I present empirical evidence in its favour. Secondly, I show how this model yields …
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Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations of scalar implicature
… realized rapidly. Participants read infelicitous quantifiers for which the semantic meaning (at least one of) was correct with respect to the context but the pragmatic meaning (not all of) was not, compared to quantifiers for which the semantic meaning was inconsistent with the context and no …
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