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The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants
Developmental Neurobiology, Volume 86, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Recent investigations have shown that the neural processing of linguistic content may interact with social cognition. Specifically, semantic processing, as reflected by the N400 event‐related potential, appears to be sensitive to manipulations of Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental content to social partners.
Bálint Forgács +6 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract To navigate in and communicate about the continuous world we experience, our minds segment this experience into discrete event units. Yet, languages differ in how they package core aspects of events into linguistic units. Here, we ask how event units in language and cognition relate to each other, and how this relation might change during ...
Bilge Tınaz, Ercenur Ünal
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Scalar implicatures as implicatures of compatibility
, 2022 Las implicaciones de escalado se definen tradicionalmente como interpretaciones de límite superior de términos de escala débiles, en las que asumen la fuerza de información máxima de sus escalas, negando términos más informativos (por ejemplo, "solo unos pocos pero no todos") por el trabajo de la primera cantidad de grice submáxima.
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 123-134, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
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Assertion, Lying, and Untruthfully Implicating [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter explores the prospects for justifying the somewhat widespread, somewhat firmly held sense that there is some moral advantage to untruthfully implicating over lying. I call this the "Difference Intuition." I define lying in terms of asserting,
Pepp, Jessica
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Implicatures in Judicial Opinions [PDF]
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2019 A frequently discussed question in recent jurisprudential debates concerns the extent to which conversational\ud implicatures can be conveyed reliably in legal language. Roughly, an implicature is a piece of information that a\ud speaker communicates indirectly, that is without making the conveyed information explicit.
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 261-281, April 2026.Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains
GlossaThe present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over empty domains.
Maria Buyko +2 more
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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