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Discourse variation of vague language: vague quantifiers in spoken and written Lithuanian

Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2018
Vagueness is a controversial issue, which was long stigmatised by both researchers and laypeople and largely neglected in linguistics until the publication of Channell’s (1994) study, which demonstrated that vague language (VL) is a multi-faceted ...
Jūratė Ruzaitė
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Multi-copy quantifiers for single-photon states

Scientific Reports, 2017
Single-photon states are basic resources for hybrid quantum technology with non-Gaussian states of light. Accelerating quantum technology is already able to produce high-quality single-photon states.
Petr Zapletal, Radim Filip
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Complement set focus after positive quantifiers: The influence of context

Psychology of Language and Communication
During reading, different cues influence readers’ focus. One of these is natural language quantifiers. Negative quantifiers, such as few (e.g., “Few attended the lecture”), have a complex influence on focus.
Poirier Rachel C., Upadhyay Sri Siddhi N., Klin Celia M.   +2 more
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Käännös avaimena sanan harva semantiikkaan

Lähivõrdlusi
Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan sanan harva käyttöä kvanttoripronominina ja adjektiivina. Aineisto on kerätty korpuksesta ParRus, joka koostuu alkuperäisistä venäjänkielisistä kaunokirjallisuuden teksteistä ja niiden suomennoksista.
Veronika Mysheva
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Measuring the cognitive cost of downward monotonicity by controlling for negative polarity

Glossa, 2019
Our goal in this study was to behaviorally characterize the property (or properties) that render negative quantifiers more complex in processing compared to their positive counterparts (e.g. the pair few/many).
Galit Agmon, Yonatan Loewenstein, Yosef Grodzinsky   +2 more
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Discourse-Linked DPs as Covert Partitives

Isogloss
The paper studies the conditions that determine the Discourse-Linked or non-Discourse-Linked status of noun-less Determiner Phrases introduced by different determiners, in Italian and in English. For instance, given the sentence Ten bombs exploded
Michelangelo Falco, Roberto Zamparelli
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Alternating Quantifiers in Uniform One-Dimensional Fragments with an Excursion into Three-Variable Logic [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science
The uniform one-dimensional fragment of first-order logic was introduced a few years ago as a generalization of the two-variable fragment to contexts involving relations of arity greater than two.
Oskar Fiuk, Emanuel Kieronski
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Language and Arithmetic: A Failure to Find Cross Cognitive Domain Semantic Priming Between Exception Phrases and Subtraction or Addition

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
We examined cross-domain semantic priming effects between arithmetic and language. We paired subtractions with their linguistic equivalent, exception phrases (EPs) with positive quantifiers (e.g., “everybody except John”) while pairing additions with ...
Golnoush Ronasi, Martin H. Fischer, Malte Zimmermann   +2 more
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L’Absence d’article en français et sa solution en chinois

Corela, 2023
In this paper, we are interested in the absence of determinants in Chinese and French. As we all know that there is no article in Chinese, yet this does not mean the absence of the functions assumed by the article and the zero article.
Chunyuan MA
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Determiners and quantifiers in Spanish: types, tests and theories

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018
This article provides an overview about the main facts and analytical options in the domain of determiners and quantifiers in Spanish. It covers the main classification of determiners and their basic syntactic and semantic properties (§1), the ...
Antonio Fábregas
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