Quantification and ACD: Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing
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Quantification and ACD: Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing
Quantifiers, unlike proper names or definite descriptions, cannot be given the semantics of referring expressions. This fact has triggered a long-standing debate in formal semantics and syntax as to the combinatorial means by which quantifiers are integrated into a sentence. The present paper contributes to this debate through an investigation of quantifier comprehension during real-time senten...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Semantics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0167-5133,1477-4593
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffr009