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Apr 2 |
Course planning; Conversational implicature: an overview |
- Grice, H. Paul. 1975. Logic and conversation. In Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan, eds., Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts, 43–58. New York: Academic Press.
- Gibbs, Raymond W. and J. Moise. 1997. Pragmatics in understanding what is said. Cognition 62(1): 51-74.
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Apr 9 |
Are conversational implicatures generated by the grammar?
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- Breheny, Richard; Napoleon Katsos; and John Williams. 2006. Are generalised scalar implicatures generated by default? An on-line investigation into the role of context in generating pragmatic inferences. Cognition 100: 434–463.
- Stiller, Alex; Noah D. Goodman; and Michael C. Frank. 2011. Ad-hoc scalar implicatures in adults and children. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Optional: Chierchia, Gennaro; Danny Fox; and Benjamin Spector. 2008. The grammatical view of scalar implicatures and the relationship between semantics and pragmatics. To appear in Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul and Portner, eds., Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton.
- Optional: Horn, Laurence R. 2006. The border wars. In Klaus von Heusinger, Ken P. Turner, eds., Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier.
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Apr 16 |
Is implicature processing fast and automatic or slow and effortful?
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- Huang, Yi Ting and Jesse Snedeker. 2009. Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: insight into the semantics-pragmatics interface. Cognitive Psychology. 58(3): 376-415.
- Daniel J. Grodner; Natalie M. Klein; Kathleen M. Carbary; and Michael K. Tanenhaus. 2010. “Some,” and possibly all, scalar inferences are not delayed: evidence for immediate pragmatic enrichment. Cognition 116(1): 42-55.
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Apr 23 |
How are “embedded implicatures” computed?
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- Chemla, Emmanuel and Benjamin Spector. 2011. Experimental evidence for embedded scalar implicatures. Journal of Semantics 28(3): 359-400.
- Russell, Benjamin. 2006. Against grammatical computation of scalar implicatures. Journal of Semantics 23(4): 361-382.
- Optional: Geurts, Bart. 2009. Scalar implicatures and local pragmatics. Mind and Language 24(1): 51–79.
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Apr 30 |
What is the acquisition course for implicatures?
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- Papafragou, Anna and Julien Musolino. 2003. Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Cognition 86(3): 253-282.
- Barner, David; Neon Brooks; and Alan Bale. 2011. Accessing the unsaid: the role of scalar alternatives in children's pragmatic inference. Cognition 118: 84-93.
- Huang, Yi-Ting and Snedeker, Jesse. 2009. Semantic Meaning and Pragmatic Interpretation in 5-Year-Olds: Evidence From Real-Time Spoken Language Comprehension. Developmental Psychology 46(6): 1723-1739.
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May 7 |
How does intonation contribute to implicatures?
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- Büring, Daniel. 2007. Semantics, intonation, and information structure. In Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, 445–473. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Dennison, Heeyeon Y. and Amy J. Schafer. 2010. Online construction of implicature through contrastive prosody. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, IL.
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May 14 |
How do we make probabilistic inferences about meaning in context?
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- Frank, Michael C. and Goodman, Noah D. in press. Predicting pragmatic reasoning in language games. Science.
- Benz, Anton. 2005. Utility and relevance of answers. In Anton Benz, Gerhard Jäger, Robert van Rooij, ed., Game Theory and Pragmatics, 195-219. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave McMillan.
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May 21 |
How do we generate referring expressions in context?
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- Dale, Robert and Ehud Reiter. 1995. Computational interpretations of the Gricean maxims in the generation of referring expressions. Cognitive Science, 19: 233-263.
- Golland, Dave; Percy Liang; and Dan Klein. 2010. A game-theoretic approach to generating spatial descriptions. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 410-419. Cambridge, MA: Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Kehler, Andrew and Gregory Ward. 2006. Referring expressions and conversational implicature. In Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward, eds., Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn, 183-200. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
- Optional: Jäger, Gerhard. To appear. Game theory in semantics and pragmatics. In Claudia Maienborn; Klaus von Heusinger; and Paul Portner, eds, Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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May 28 |
Memorial day; no class |
Jun 4 |
Student project presentations |