Understanding quantifiers in language

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Authors
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • N.A. Taatgen
  • H. van Rijn
Book title Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
ISBN
  • 9780976831853
Event 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pages (from-to) 1109-1114
Publisher Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract We compare time needed for understanding different types of quantifiers. We show that the computational distinction between quantifiers recognized by finite-automata and push-down automata is psychologically relevant. Our research improves upon hypothesis and explanatory power of recent neuroimaging studies as well as provides evidence for the claim that human linguistic abilities are constrained by computational complexity.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2009/papers/260/index.html
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