Common verbal quantifiers: Usage and interpretation.

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University students made judgments about the meanings of 6 common quantifiers combined with different set sizes. Exp I (n = 26) involved nonverbal quantity judgments; Exp II (n = 30), verbal numerosity judgments. An information integration analysis shows that Ss' judgments followed a simple multiplying rule: the meanings of the quantifiers increased linearly with respect to the set size of the population considered. Ss used the quantifiers in a highly consistent manner, the only exception being the quantifier several, which was found to have 2 distinct usages. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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