On Representations of Quantifiers  

Oleh:

Routh, David A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 11 no. 3 (Mar. 1994), page 199-214.
Topik: natural language quantifiers; multidimensional scaling;
Fulltext: vol 11, no 3, p 199-214.pdf (766.08KB)

Isi artikel

In an ongoing psychological investigation, using a multi-task, multi-model strategy, the similarity of the meanings of 20 natural language quantifiers was studied by means of a freesort task. The induced proximity measures were modelled using various forms of spatial, multidimensional scaling and non-spatial (discrete feature) tree models. The data were better represented by the latter class of model. It is suggested that there are important components of meaning beyond the continuous, internal, unidimensional scale of quantity (whether amount or proportion) hypothesized by several previous investigators. The utility and implications of the favoured categorical representation require further investigation.

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