Researchers have long noted that children's grammatical morphemes are variably produced, raising questions about when and how grammatical competence is acquired. This study examined the spontaneous production of determiners by two French-speaking children aged 1;5-2;5. It found that determiners were produced earlier with monosyllabic words, and later with disyllabic and trisyllabic words. This ...

On the semantics of determiners in a rich type-theoretical framework The variation of word meaning according to the context led us to enrich the type system of our syntactical and semantic analyser of French based on categorial grammars and Montague semantics (or lambda-DRT). The main advantage of a deep semantic analyse is too represent meaning by logical formulae that can be easily used e.g. ...

This paper presents a speciic part of HUGG, a generation grammar for Hebrew. This part deals with determiners and quantiiers. Our main goal is to determine which set of features must be present in the input to the generation grammar to control the generation of complex determiners and quantiiers. Hebrew determiners are characterized by two properties: (1) deeniteness is marked in several places...

This paper presents a procedure to generate judgment determiners, e.g., many, few. Although such determiners carry very little objective information , they are extensively used in everyday language. The paper presents a precise characterization of a class of such determiners using three semantic tests. A conceptual representation for sets is then derived from this characterization which can ser...

In this paper we examine from a semantic point of view a class of expressions variously referred to as determiners, quantifiers, or articles. Our treatment of the meaning of these expressions reflects an idea which has its origin in the work of Montague (1970), Lewis (1972), Geach (1972), and Cresswell (1973): determiners are to be interpreted as two-place relations between sets of individuals....

In this paper we test the dominant paradigm for modeling the semantics of determined noun phrases called Generalized Quantifier Theory in embodied interactions with robots. We contrast the traditional approach with a new approach, called Clustering Determination, which is heavily inspired by research on grounding of sensorimotor categories, and we show that our approach performs better in noisy...

Previous work on English determiners has primarily concentrated on their semantics or scoping properties rather than their complex ordering behavior. The little work that has been done on determiner ordering generally splits determiners into three subcategories. However , this small number of categories does not capture the ner distinctions necessary to correctly order deter-miners. This paper ...

Most work on determiners has been concerned with purely semantic properties the occurrence of particular determiners in certain syntactic environments such as existential there sentences determiners as heads of phrases the DP hypoth esis Abney or quanti er scoping One question that has not been extensively discussed in the literature is how the various English determiners order with respect to ...

This work adopts the perspective of plural logic and measurement theory in order rst to focus on the microstructure of comparative determiners; and second, to derive the properties of comparative determiners as these are studied in Generalized Quantiier Theory, locus of the most sophisticated semantic analysis of natural language determiners. The work here appears to be the rst to examine compa...