Number sense and quantifier interpretation

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Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-62

  Clark, Robin ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; Natural language; Number sense; Numerosity; Psycholinguistics; Quantifiers; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248402105     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-006-9008-2     Document Type: Article

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