@article{Schöller_Franke_2019, title={How many manys? Exploring semantic theories with data-driven computational models}, volume={20}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/285}, abstractNote={<p>We use a data-driven computational inference approach to address the question whether it is plausible to maintain that there is a stable core semantics that governs the interpretation of cardinal and proportional <em>many </em>across different contexts. Adopting the idea that the denotation of <em>many </em>is a function of a stable threshold parameter that applies to a contextually-variable probability distribution that captures prior expectations, we demonstrate that it is possible to maintain that there is a single fixed threshold for <em>many</em>’s cardinal and proportional use, although models that allow for non-uniform thresholds or lexical ambiguity may have a slightly better empirical fit to our data.</p>}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Schöller, Anthea and Franke, Michael}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={622–639} }