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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics

, 2019
This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past twenty years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide ...
C. Cummins, N. Katsos
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Experimental Pragmatics with Machines: Testing LLM Predictions for the Inferences of Plain and Embedded Disjunctions

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Human communication is based on a variety of inferences that we draw from sentences, often going beyond what is literally said. While there is wide agreement on the basic distinction between entailment, implicature, and presupposition, the status of many
Polina Tsvilodub   +4 more
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The Probabilistic Turn in Semantics and Pragmatics

Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021
This article provides an overview of graded and probabilistic approaches in semantics and pragmatics. These approaches share a common set of core research goals: ( a) a concern with phenomena that are best described as graded, including a vast lexicon of
K. Erk
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Social meaning in semantics and pragmatics

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2020
The term social meaning identifies the constellation of traits that linguistic forms convey about the social identity of their users—for example, their demographics, personality and ideological orientation. A central topic of research in sociolinguistics
Andrea Beltrama
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Pragmatic experimental philosophy

Philosophical Psychology, 2014
This paper considers three package deals combining views in philosophy of mind, meta-philosophy, and experimental philosophy. The most familiar of these packages gives center-stage to pumping intuitions about fanciful cases, but that package involves problematic commitments both to a controversial descriptivist theory of reference and to intuitions ...
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Experimental Pragmatics

2015
Abstract This chapter describes some of the important research in experimental pragmatics, most notably studies related to recovering speakers’ intentions, inferring conversational implicatures, and the role of common ground in discourse understanding.
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Experimental Pragmatics

2017
While both pragmatic theory and experimental investigations of language using psycholinguistic methods have been well-established subfields in the language sciences for a long time, the field of Experimental Pragmatics, where such methods are applied to pragmatic phenomena, has only fully taken shape since the early 2000s.
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EXPERIMENTAL AND PRAGMATIC APPROACHES TO PATTERN RECOGNITION

Kybernetes, 1978
A purely theoretical approach has been found to be of limited value in the solution of practical Pattern Recognition problems. Difficulties arise when relating infinite mathematics to reality, e.g. “algorithmic convergence” must be replaced by a vaguer notion of “satisfactory performance”.
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