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Evidence on quantifiers from acquisition, processing and sign language
It has recently been proposed that the traditional definitions of natural language quantifiers in terms of first- or second-order logic fail to capture important aspects of their meaning. In this presentation I review theoretical linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence in favour and against the proposal that superlative quantifiers (at least n, at most n) have richer meanings than comparative quantifiers (more than n, fewer than n) and that these additional aspects of meaning call for a significant revision of the semantics of these and other expressions.
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24 March 2015 at 2:00 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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English, Middlesex University |
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Free |
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All welcome. This talk takes place in Room V103, Vine Building, Directions to campus here: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/get-in-touch/directions-london Contact Billy Clark for further information Language and Communication Research Seminars are organised by the Language and Communication research cluster at Middlesex University. The staff facilitator for the series is |
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