Iris van de Pol, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub Szymanik, "Complexity and learnability in the explanation of semantic universals of quantifiers", Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the ...

Processing of quantifiers such as “many” and “few” relies on number knowledge, linguistic abilities, and working memory. Negative quantifiers (e.g., “few,” “less than half”) induce higher processing ...