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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 173-194, July 2025.Abstract This essay offers an explanation of how assertions express that the speaker has a propositional attitude toward what's asserted. The explanation is that this feature of assertion is owed to a hearer's spontaneous mindreading. I call this the assertoric mindreading hypothesis.
Peter van Elswyk
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Broaden Your Views. Implications of Domain Widening and the "Logicality" of Language [PDF]
, 2006 Linguistic
Chierchia, Gennaro
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 458-474, June 2025.Abstract I argue that “general pejoratives” such as “jerk” or “bastard” differ crucially from items such as “that damn N”. While items such as the latter typically serve to give vent to one's attitudes, general pejoratives essentially involve judgments about a person's behaviour or character.
Thorsten Sander
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Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and ...
Elizabeth Coppock, Thomas Brochhagen
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]
, 2016 Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 210-222, June 2025.ABSTRACT Theories of speech accommodation and audience design have tended to focus on social identity functions of convergence and divergence in interaction. In this article, I focus on additional interactional phenomena that are under‐studied but systematic.
Devyani Sharma
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Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions, not reflexive expressions
Glossa, 2016 We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical causative counterparts under reflexivization. Instead, we defend the standard account
Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
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Developmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2025.ABSTRACT Do mono‐ and bilingual children differ in the way they learn novel words in ambiguous settings? Listeners may resolve referential ambiguity by assuming that novel words refer to unknown, rather than known, objects–a response known as the mutual exclusivity effect.
Natalie Bleijlevens +2 more
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Glossa, 2018 This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a universal quantifier,
Emmanuel Chemla, Lyn Tieu, Milica Denić
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Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: the case from clinical pragmatics [PDF]
, 2015 The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of mind-reading or theory of mind (ToM) is indisputable.
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