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Differential influences of visuospatial and phonological resources on mental arithmetic ...
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The Grammar of Approximating Number Pairs
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We studied approximating pairs of numbers (a, b) used to estimate quantity in a single phrase (“two, three years ago”). Pollmann and Jansen (1996) found that only a few of the many possible pairs are actually used, suggesting an interaction between the ways in which people estimate quantity and their use of quantitative phrases in colloquial speech. They proposed a set of rules that describe which approximating pairs are used in Dutch phrases. We revisit this issue in an analysis of Swedish and American language corpora and in a series of three experiments in which Swedish and American adults rated the acceptability of various approximating pairs, and created approximating pairs of their own in response to various estimation tasks. We find evidence for Pollmann’s and Jansen’s rules in both Swedish and English phrases, but also identify additional rules and substantial individual and cross-language variation. We discuss implications for the origin of this loose “grammar” of approximating pairs.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841797 https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.3.333 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20234023
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