Experiments in cultural language evolution

Human natural languages use quantifiers as ways to designate the number of objects of a set. They include numerals, such as ``three'', or circumscriptions, such as ``a few''. The latter are not only underdetermined but also context dependent. We provide a cultural-evolution expla...

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Contributors: Steels, Luc 1952- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Amsterdam [u.a.] Benjamins 2012
In: Advances in interaction studies (3)
Year: 2012
Series/Journal:Advances in interaction studies 3
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Language origins / Language development / Grammaticalization
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Linguistic paleontology
B Anthropological linguistics
B Mathematical statistics
B Language and languages ; Origin
B Language and languages Origin Electronic books
B Electronic books
B Statistics
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