On Round Numbers: Pragmatic Aspects of Numerical Expressions

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

• Publication date

  2001-12-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1076/jqul.8.3.187.4095
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