Interface transparency and the psychosemantics of most

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 227-256

  Lidz, Jeffrey ^a   Pietroski, Paul ^a   Halberda, Justin ^b   Hunter, Tim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog magnitude; Approximate number system; Language development; Language processing; Mathematics; Most; Number; Quantification; Semantics cognition interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961209075     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-010-9062-6     Document Type: Article

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