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Epistemic Perspectives and Communicative Acts by Benz, Anton

“…Searle (Speech Acts, 1969) introduced his famous distinction between constitutive and regulative rules that together define felicity conditions of speech acts…”
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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics by Gotzner, Nicole, Solt, Stephanie, Benz, Anton

“…Previous research has demonstrated great variability in the rates of scalar inferences across different triggers (Doran et al., 2009; van Tiel et al., 2016)…”
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Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian by Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Tieu, Lyn, Bîlbîie, Gabriela, Panaitescu, Mara, Slăvuţeanu, Gabriela, Benz, Anton, Nicolae, Andreea Cristina

“…According to Horn’s (1984) Principle of Division of Pragmatic Labor, marked forms should have marked meanings. We investigate differences in the interpretation…”
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The Best Response Paradigm: A New Approach to Test Implicatures of Complex Sentences by Gotzner, Nicole, Benz, Anton

“…There is a controversial debate about which implicatures are triggered by logically complex sentences. This article introduces a novel experimental paradigm…”
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Certainly but not certain: The expression of subjective and objective probability by Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Trinh, Tue, Żygis, Marzena, Solt, Stephanie, Benz, Anton, Krifka, Manfred

“…This paper investigates the interpretation of the epistemic modal adjectives possible, certain and their adverbial counterparts possibly, certainly, taking the…”
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Scalar bounds and expected values of comparatively modified numerals by Hesse, Christoph, Benz, Anton

“…•In under informative contexts, the approximate number sense bootstraps expectations about true values of modified numerals.•Expectations are more affected by…”
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Questions Under Discussion: From Sentence to Discourse by Benz, Anton, Jasinskaja, Katja

“…This issue of Discourse Processes is introduced…”
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Game-Theoretic Approaches to Pragmatics by Benz, Anton, Stevens, Jon

“…We present an overview and comparison of different game-theoretic approaches to Gricean pragmatics, including games of partial information, optimal answer…”
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Embedded implicature: what can be left unsaid? by Benz, Anton, Gotzner, Nicole

“…Previous research on scalar implicature has primarily relied on meta-linguistic judgment tasks and found varying rates of such inferences depending on the…”
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Errors in Pragmatics by Benz, Anton

“…In this paper we are going to show that error coping strategies play an essential role in linguistic pragmatics. We study the effect of noisy speaker…”
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On Bayesian pragmatics and categorical predictions by Benz Anton

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Pragmatic question answering: A game-theoretic approach by Stevens, Jon Scott, Benz, Anton, Reuße, Sebastian, Klabunde, Ralf

“…We present results of quantitative evaluations of a content selection scheme for answer generation in sales dialogue which is based on an interactive…”
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On a super large fixed-point of common information in multi-agent signalling games by Benz, Anton

“…In this article, we compare two fixed-point constructions of common knowledge in sequential coordination problems. The first one corresponds to the standard…”
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Implicature and discourse structure: An introduction by Benz, Anton, Jasinskaja, Katja, Salfner, Fabienne

“…This special issue brings together two major approaches to implicated, non-literal meaning of an utterance: the Gricean theory of conversational implicature…”
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Partial Blocking and Associative Learning by Benz, Anton

“…We are going to explain partial blocking as the result of diachronic processes based on what we will call associative learning. Especially, we argue that the…”
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Implicature and Discourse Structure by BENZ, Anton, JASINSKAJA, Katja, SALFNER, Fabienne

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Optimal assertions, and what they implicate. A uniform game theoretic approach by Benz, Anton, van Rooij, Robert

“…To determine what the speaker in a cooperative dialog meant with his assertion, on top of what he explicitly said, it is crucial that we assume that the…”
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Logic and cognition by COWLES, H. Wind, WALENSKI, Matthew, BENZ, Anton, VAN ROOIJ, Robert, POLITZER, Guy, STENNING, Keith, VAN LAMBALGEN, Michiel, LEITGEB, Hannes, LORINI, Emiliano, CASTELFRANCHI, Cristiano, KLUENDER, Robert, KNAUFF, Markus, DAVILA GARCEZ, Artur S, GABBAY, Dov M, RAY, Oliver, WOODS, John, CLARK, Robin, GROSSMAN, Murray

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On Coordinating Interpretations-Optimality and Rational Interaction by Benz, Anton

“…In this paper, we investigate some questions about coordination & interpretation which have been addressed by bidirectional Optimality Theory (Bi-OT). We…”
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Constraints in Discourse 2 by Yan, Yilun

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