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Quantifiers and Working Memory
- Jakub Szymanik,
- Marcin Zajenkowski
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Abstract
The paper presents a study examining the role of working memory in quantifier verification. We created situations similar to the span task to compare numerical quantifiers of low and high rank, parity quantifiers and proportional quantifiers. The results enrich and support the data obtained previously in [1,2,3] and predictions drawn from a computational model [4,5].
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- Title
- Quantifiers and Working Memory
- Book Title
- Logic, Language and Meaning
- Book Subtitle
- 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009, Revised Selected Papers
- Pages
- pp 456-464
- Copyright
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_46
- Print ISBN
- 978-3-642-14286-4
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-642-14287-1
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Series Volume
- 6042
- Series ISSN
- 0302-9743
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
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- working memory
- generalized quantifiers
- computational semantics
- span test
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- Editors
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Maria Aloni
(19)
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Harald Bastiaanse
(19)
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Tikitu de Jager
(19)
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Katrin Schulz
(19)
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Maria Aloni
- Editor Affiliations
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- 19. Department of Philosophy (ILLC), University of Amsterdam
- Authors
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Jakub Szymanik
(20)
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Marcin Zajenkowski
(21)
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Jakub Szymanik
- Author Affiliations
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- 20. Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University,
- 21. Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw,
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