Nonliteral understanding of number words

One of the most puzzling and important facts about communication is that people do not always mean what they say; speakers often use imprecise, exaggerated, or otherwise literally false descriptions to communicate experiences and attitudes. Here, we focus on the nonliteral interpretation of number w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bergen, Leon, Kao, Justine T., Wu, Jean Y., Goodman, Noah D.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95752
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1013-1461