Content words (e.g. nouns and adjectives) are generally connected: there are no gaps in their denotations; no noun means ‘table or shoe’ or ‘animal or house’. We explore a formulation of connectedness which is applicable to content and logical words alike, and which compares well with the classic notion of monotonicity for quantifiers. On a first inspection, logical words satisfy this generalized version of the connectedness property at least as well as content words do — that is, both in terms of what may be observed in the lexicons of natural languages (although our investigations remain modest in that respect) and in terms of acquisition biases (with an artificial rule learning experiment). This reduces the putative differences between content and logical words, as well as the associated challenges that these differences would pose, e.g., for learners.

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连接内容和逻辑词

内容词（例如名词和形容词）通常是连接在一起的：它们的表示形式没有空隙；没有名词表示“桌子或鞋子”或“动物或房屋”。我们探索了一种连接性的表述，该表述适用于内容和逻辑词，并且与量词的经典单调性概念进行了很好的比较。初次检查时，逻辑词至少与内容词一样满足连接性属性的这种广义形式，也就是说，就自然语言词典中所观察到的而言（尽管我们在这方面的研究仍不多见） ）以及在获取偏见方面（采用人工规则学习实验）。这样可以减少内容和逻辑词之间的假定差异，以及这些差异可能带来的相关挑战，例如，