Comprehension of Simple Quanti ers Empirical Evaluation of a Computational Model

We compare time needed for understanding di erent types of quanti ers. In the rst study, we show that the distinction between quanti ers recognized by nite-automata and push-down automata is psychologically relevant. In the second study, we compare comprehension of push-down quanti ers in universes with randomly placed objects and those where objects were ordered in some speci c way simplifying (with respect to memory resources) computational task. The reaction time in the second case is signi cantly shorter than in the rst case.