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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2011 Scalar implicatures are traditionally viewed as pragmatic inferences which result from a reasoning about speakers’ communicative intentions (Grice 1989). This view has been challenged in recent years by theories which propose that scalar implicatures are a grammatical phenomenon.
Emmanuel Chemla, Benjamin Spector
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Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert +2 more
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines how openness is interpreted in human–LLM interaction through an ethnographic study of a robotics experiment. Focusing on an episode in which a robot produced an unexpected utterance, I analyze how engineers classify the output as inconsequential noise.
Raffaele Andrea Buono
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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Previous research has demonstrated great variability in the rates of scalar inferences across different triggers (Doran et al., 2009; van Tiel et al., 2016). In the current study, we show that variation is more systematic than previously thought.
Nicole Gotzner +3 more
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 74-87, July 2026.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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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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Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint‐Based Approach [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2014 AbstractThree experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated withsomeusing a “gumball paradigm.” On each trial, participants saw an image of a gumball machine with an upper chamber with 13 gumballs and an empty lower chamber. Gumballs then dropped to the lower chamber and participants evaluated statements, such as “You got some ...
Judith Degen, Michael K. Tanenhaus
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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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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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