Communicating Quantities: A Psychological Perspective

1993-01-01book171 citationsclosed

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge Categorization, perception, and language

Abstract

Introduction. Quantifiers and Quantities. Scales and Negatives. Focus and Attention Control. Focus: Foundations and Extensions. Further Aspects of Inference. Towards a Psychological Account of Quantifiers.

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