Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
Parent: Department of Linguistics
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026
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| 98c8h8mb | Relating Scalar Inference and Alternative Activation: A View from the Rise-Fall-Rise Tune in American English | 33 | 4 | 29 | 12.1% |
| 7jn8b9d6 | Is there a superlative rabbit in the ordinal hat? A study of ordinals vs. degree modifiers in nested definites | 30 | 3 | 27 | 10.0% |
| 9b79m8pv | Indirect discourse as mixed quotation? An experimental investigation | 29 | 2 | 27 | 6.9% |
| 9kb635wd | Disambiguating quantity judgements: mass/count and extra-grammatical cues | 28 | 2 | 26 | 7.1% |
| 6qf0c495 | Pseudo-Incorporated Antecedents and Anaphora in Persian: The Influence of Stereotypical Knowledge | 25 | 6 | 19 | 24.0% |
| 91p4p0r0 | Coloring disjunction in child Romanian | 25 | 4 | 21 | 16.0% |
| 9cr147tg | Disagreements do not automatically raise the standard of precision | 23 | 2 | 21 | 8.7% |
| 5r62k1cn | Transparency in the processing of temporal ambiguity: The case of embedded tense | 21 | 1 | 20 | 4.8% |
| 6jx8c5k8 | Tracking the activation of scalar alternatives with semantic priming | 21 | 3 | 18 | 14.3% |
| 7gp8v150 | Parenthesized Modifiers in English and Korean: What They (May) Mean | 21 | 1 | 20 | 4.8% |
| 8wd490qc | Modeling the prompt in inference judgment tasks | 21 | 2 | 19 | 9.5% |
| 48z3m34m | Studying the interplay of context and semantic content in the interpretation of adversative conjunctions with eye-tracking | 19 | 1 | 18 | 5.3% |
| 5w2343f0 | On a concessive reading of the rise-fall-rise contour: contextual and semantic factors | 19 | 1 | 18 | 5.3% |
| 65q7t6wf | Non-Implicature Sources of Exclusivity in Linguistic Disjunction | 19 | 3 | 16 | 15.8% |
| 09c834sj | Effects of instruction on semantic and pragmatic judgment tasks | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0.0% |
| 5dq6p7hw | Cause, Make, and Force as Graded Causatives | 18 | 3 | 15 | 16.7% |
| 63h036d1 | The role of definiteness in ad hoc implicatures | 18 | 1 | 17 | 5.6% |
| 86s8r161 | Informational content vs. discourse orientation: experimental and computational perspectives | 18 | 1 | 17 | 5.6% |
| 8861z7sq | Corpus evidence for the role of world knowledge in ambiguity reduction: Using high positive expectations to inform quantifier scope | 18 | 1 | 17 | 5.6% |
| 8dg4t8n3 | Beyond Surprising: English Event Structure in the Maze | 18 | 1 | 17 | 5.6% |
| 8s2657fm | Modeling the Role of Polysemy in Verb Categorization | 18 | 2 | 16 | 11.1% |
| 6g40g0t7 | Social meaning and pragmatic reasoning: The case of (im)precision | 17 | 1 | 16 | 5.9% |
| 09q70735 | Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6.3% |
| 32x5j3fk | Intention and Attention in Image-Text Presentations: A Coherence Approach | 16 | 2 | 14 | 12.5% |
| 3f89s797 | <em>Or not</em> Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6.3% |
| 64t4g3zf | Only the (informationally) stronger survive: A probe recognition study with scale-mates and antonyms | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6.3% |
| 65z5v762 | An experimental investigation of perspective alignment in gesture and speech | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6.3% |
| 6q96f5m3 | Coming in, or going out? Measuring the effect of discourse factors on perspective prominence | 16 | 3 | 13 | 18.8% |
| 6wv0566j | Experientiality markers in memory reports: A semantics-pragmatics puzzle | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6.3% |
| 75k198k2 | Less-comparatives must be less ambiguous than exactly-differentials, experimental data shows | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6.3% |
| 7zt0z2t7 | Fake reefs are sometimes reefs and sometimes not, but are always compositional | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6.3% |
| 8dn2m2hq | The rise and particularly fall of presuppositions: Evidence from duality in universals | 16 | 3 | 13 | 18.8% |
| 9s45n37b | De re interpretation in belief reports: An experimental investigation | 16 | 2 | 14 | 12.5% |
| 0620k2c4 | Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: does linear distance matter? | 15 | 2 | 13 | 13.3% |
| 4m64v9qk | 'Negation-blind' N400 effect disappears when lexical priming is controlled | 15 | 2 | 13 | 13.3% |
| 5vz773jw | Testing the influence of QUDs on the occurrence of Conditional Perfection | 15 | 1 | 14 | 6.7% |
| 6g42k90z | Semantics of Non-Doxastic Attitude Ascriptions from Experimental Perspective | 15 | 1 | 14 | 6.7% |
| 7kd556z3 | The interpretations of scalar implicatures, presuppositions, and implicated presupposition by Thai children with autism | 15 | 2 | 13 | 13.3% |
| 7n6702vp | Experimental findings for a cross-modal account of dynamic binding in gesture-speech interaction | 15 | 1 | 14 | 6.7% |
| 7z65x2sf | Linguistic and Social Meaning Match: An experiment on modal concord in English | 15 | 1 | 14 | 6.7% |
| 3r0992q0 | A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction | 14 | 2 | 12 | 14.3% |
| 4407p5fq | Simulating semantic change: A methodological note | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7.1% |
| 6t39m6g1 | "Liz can buy a croissant or donut. That's both together, right?" Distinguishing target Free Choice from non-target Modal Conjunction in Child French | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7.1% |
| 8g33n38k | Analyzing naturally-sourced Questions Under Discussion | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7.1% |
| 9ct5j97v | On the acquisition of <em>either</em> and <em>too</em> | 14 | 3 | 11 | 21.4% |
| 2v09t7d0 | Shadow playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic adverbs are a kind of magic! | 13 | 2 | 11 | 15.4% |
| 3v06k9nh | Discourse behavior of possessives reflects the importance of interpersonal relationships | 13 | 1 | 12 | 7.7% |
| 49s7f73m | Representing affect information in word embeddings | 13 | 1 | 12 | 7.7% |
| 6fg1q6zx | (Not) acquiring meaning in a second language: Are input deficits key? | 13 | 3 | 10 | 23.1% |
| 74t2h005 | Definitely Islands? Experimental investigation of definite islands | 13 | 2 | 11 | 15.4% |
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