[!IMPORTANT] Nesting quantifiers (for example, as the regular expression pattern (a*)* does) can increase the number of comparisons that the regular expression engine must perform, as an exponential ...

Iris van de Pol, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub Szymanik, "Complexity and learnability in the explanation of semantic universals of quantifiers", Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the ...

Processing of quantifiers such as “many” and “few” relies on number knowledge, linguistic abilities, and working memory. Negative quantifiers (e.g., “few,” “less than half”) induce higher processing ...

1 Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration Center, Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2 Department of Linguistics, University of ...

The WFFs we have studied so far only capture logical statements of a very simple form. Very commonly we want to work with more complex statements, especially those that depend on some kind of ...