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Joseph Hilferty
2012
The emergence of quantifiersPDF
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, pages 277 -- 304, 2012
Human natural languages use quantifiers as ways to designate the number of objects of a set. They include numerals, such as “three”, or circumscriptions, such as “a few”. The latter are not only underdetermined but also context dependent. We provide a cultural-evolution ...