Quantifiers and cognition : logical and computational perspectives / Jakub Szymanik.

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Quantifiers and cognition : logical and computational perspectives / Jakub Szymanik.

9783319287492 (electronic book)
3319287494 (electronic book)
9783319287478
3319287478

Switzerland : Springer, [2016]

English

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This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition. Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. Generalized quantifier theory is therefore one of the basic tools of linguistics today, studying the possible meanings and the inferential power of quantifier expressions by logical means. The classic version was developed in the 1980s, at the interface of linguistics, mathematics and philosophy. Before this volume, advances in "classic" generalized quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and their applications to linguistics, this volume adds a computational component, the third pillar of language use and logical activity. This book is essential reading for researchers in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, logic, AI, and computer science.

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Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; v. 96.

Print version: Szymanik, Jakub. Quantifiers and cognition : logical and computational perspectives. [Cham], Switzerland : Springer, c2016 9783319287478

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