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The Emergence of Natural Language Quantification
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Kocab, Annemarie; Davidson, Kathryn; Snedeker, Jesse – Cognitive Science, 2022
Classical quantifiers (like "all," "some," and "none") express relationships between two sets, allowing us to make generalizations (like "no elephants fly"). Devices like these appear to be universal in human languages. Is the ubiquity of quantification due to a universal property of the human mind or is it…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages), Cognitive Processes, Spanish