Learning First Order Quantifier Denotations An Essay in Semantic Learnability
Robin Clark · Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) · 1996
This paper is a first attempt at a formal theory of the development of semantic behavior. We will take as our starting point the acquisition of quantifier denotations. This might, at first blush, seem a curious point of departure. The past two decades have, however, seen as explosive growth in the study of quantifiers and the theory of generalized quantifiers is now sufficiently mature that its learnability properties can be studied. As we shall see, an algorithm exists that will learn the first-order quantifiers; higher order quantifiers, like