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Quantifying invasibility [PDF]

open access: yesEcology Letters, 2021
Invasibility, the chance of a population to grow from rarity and to establish a large-abundance colony, plays a fundamental role in population genetics, ecology, and evolution. For many decades, the mean growth rate when rare has been employed as an invasion criterion.
Jayant Pande   +2 more
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena   +3 more
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Superlative QP “Hyper-Raising” in dialectal Spanish: the role of dormant Edge Features

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020
In this paper I deal with a particular relative-clause superlative construction attested in Spanish dialects like Canariense (Bosque & Brucart 1991) and Puerto Rican (Rohena-Madrazo 2007), among others.
Luis Ángel Sáez del Álamo
doaj   +1 more source

On non-conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
Since the Conservativity Universal (Barwise & Cooper 1981; Keenan & Stavi 1986) has been proposed for natural language determiners, several apparent counterexamples have been presented in the literature.
Dorothy Ahn, Heejeong Ko
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Low-order non-spatial effects dominate second-order spatial effects in the texture quantifier analysis of 18F-FDG-PET images.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundThere is increasing interest in applying image texture quantifiers to assess the intra-tumor heterogeneity observed in FDG-PET images of various cancers.
Frank J Brooks, Perry W Grigsby
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Study on English Translation of Chinese Quantifiers from the Perspective of Cognitive Iconicity: A Pilot Study [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
Chinese quantifiers are heavily loaded with Chinese culture, making it challenging to translate them into idiomatic English. The majority of earlier studies only examined linguistically the English translations of Chinese quantifiers.
Liu Ying, Lu Weizhong
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an Efficient Evaluation of General Queries [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Database applications often require to evaluate queries containing quantifiers or disjunctions, e.g., for handling general integrity constraints. Existing efficient methods for processing quantifiers depart from the relational model as they rely on ...
Bry, François, Clifford, James
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Some Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation a reply to a critique

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1989
The empirical support for Adewole's critique of my paper (in this issue), "Some Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation" [LawaI 1986], comes from a literary text Atoto Arere [Adewole p. 4].
Adenike S. Lawal
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Relationships between Specified and Underspecified Quantification by the Theory of Acyclic Recursion

open access: yesAdvances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2016
The paper introduces a technique for representing quantifier relations that can have different scope order depending on context. The technique is demonstrated by classes of terms denoting relations, where each of the arguments of a relation term is bound
Roussanka LOUKANOVA
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Quantifying Confidence [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Angeletos, George-Marios   +2 more
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