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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 In Magri 2009a, I argue that a sentence such as '#Some Italians come from a warm country' sounds odd because it triggers the scalar implicature that not all Italians come from a warm country, which mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that all ...
Giorgio Magri
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On Derived Change of State Verbs in Southern Aymara
Languages, 2021 There are two main approaches to change of state verbs. One adopts an approach in terms of a total change (becomeP, for base predicate P), i.e., a change from not being in the extension of the base predicate to being in it.
Gabriel Martínez Vera
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The effect of negative polarity items on inference verification [PDF]
, 2008 The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g., Kadmon & Landman 1993, Krifka 1995, Lahiri 1997 ...
Bott, Lewis +2 more
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Does reflection reduce the epistemic side‐effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 88-118, February 2026.The epistemic side‐effect effect consists of an asymmetric pattern of knowledge attributions in harm and help cases, paralleling the Knobe effect for intentionality attributions. Error‐based accounts suggest the asymmetries arise from performance errors in harm cases. We challenge this claim with three new experimental studies designed to reduce errors.
Bartosz Maćkiewicz +3 more
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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An Implicature Analysis On “Oh, Brother!” Comic Strip Serials [PDF]
, 2013 This study focuses on analyzing comic using theory of implicature and cooperative principles proposed by Grice. This study aims to (1) describe the implicatures to occur in the “Oh, Brother!” comic strip serials, (2) describe the Non observant-maxims in
, Dra. Malikatul Laela, M. Hum. +2 more
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Sorries seem to have the harder words
British Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 4, Page 757-769, November 2025.Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2183-2200, November 2025.ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
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