Processing bare quantifiers in discourse
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Quantifiers are ubiquitous in natural language and, in addition to providing information about quantity, they serve important discourse functions. We outline several theoretical accounts of the functions that quantifiers perform in a discourse and the factors governing their interpretation, focusing on two specific topics that have received substantial attention from researchers working in ling...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0006-8993
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.060