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1 A Behavioral Model for Linguistic Uncertainty PETER WALLEY and GERT DE COOMAN Universiteit Gent, Onderzoeksgroep SYSTeMS Technologiepark 9, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium 1.1 INTRODUCTION Information is commonly transmitted through statements in natural language. The statement ‘Mary is young’, for instance, provides partial information about Mary’s age. If initially we know nothing about Mary’s age and we subsequently hear that she is young, our knowledge about her age has increased, although we remain uncertain about her ex