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Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive The trucks are blue and the negative The trucks aren't blue are both neither true nor false when some of the trucks are blue and some are not, that is, when the group of trucks ...
Lyn Tieu, Manuel Križ, Emmanuel Chemla
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Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 Definite descriptions with reference failure have been argued to give rise to different truth-value intuitions depending on the local linguistic context in which they appear.
Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendrői
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Demonstratives, definite descriptions and non-redundancy [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2020 In some sentences, demonstratives can be substituted with definite descriptions without any change in meaning. In light of this, many have maintained that demonstratives are just a type of definite description.
Blumberg, Kyle Hammet
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper presents two experiments on the processing of informative definite descriptions in plausible vs. implausible contexts. Experiment 1 is a self-paced reading task (with French native speakers, n = 69), with sentences containing a definite vs ...
Misha-Laura Müller, Magali A. Mari
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Incomplete Symbols — Definite Descriptions Revisited [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2015 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
N. Gratzl
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Unembedded definite descriptions and relevance [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Definite descriptions (e.g. 'The king of France in 1997', 'The teacher of Aristotle') do not stand for particulars. Or so I will assume. The semantic alternative has seemed to be that descriptions only have meaning within sentences: i.e., that their ...
Stainton, Robert
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Factors causing overspecification in definite descriptions [PDF]
, 2011 Speakers often overspecify their target descriptions and include more information than necessary for unique identification of the target referent. In the current paper, we study the production of definite target descriptions, and explore several factors ...
Gatt, Albert +3 more
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The impact of discourse types on the acquisition of nominal determination in L2 French [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2014 +N) are much more frequent in descriptions than in narratives: the use of these forms is determined by the marking of the introduction of referents and change of reference, that are more common in descriptions. The comparison with the results of previous
Marzena Watorek +2 more
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Definite Descriptions and Semantic Memory* [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 1977 Subjects were exposed to sentences containing “direct” and “indirect” uses of names and definite descriptions. On a subsequent recognition test incorrect rejections tended to be of sentences involving indirect uses, and false alarms to sentences involving direct uses.
A ORTONY, R ANDERSON
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An Empirically Based System for Processing Definite Descriptions
Computational Linguistics, 2021 Renata Vieira, Massimo Poesio
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