{"pk":33157,"title":"Attitudes to logical independence : traits in quantifier interpretation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Newstead (1989) reports both graphically and sententially \nelicited data on the interpretation of quantifiers by logically naive undergraduate students. The sentential elicitation \nmethod fails to make the critical distinction between entailment \nrelations between sentences, and mith-value-in-a-model relations between sentences and diagrams. The present study modifies the elicitation technique and shows that die resulting sen?tential data can be insightftiUy described in terms of broad ten?dencies of response (to over- or under-infer) interacting with \nhighly specific grammatical sU^ctures (subject/predicate rela?tionship). The resulting categorisation of subjects into four \ngroups is then predictive of graphically elicited behaviour \nThese results are interpreted by conu-asting expository and deductive discourse, and proposing that students initially assimilate the latter to the former","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sv966d1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Keith","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stenning","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cox","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33157/galley/24217/download/"}]}