Search Results - "Degen, Judith"

I know what you're probably going to say: Listener adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions by Schuster, Sebastian, Degen, Judith

“…Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but…”
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Reasoning in Reference Games: Individual- vs. Population-Level Probabilistic Modeling by Franke, Michael, Degen, Judith

“…Recent advances in probabilistic pragmatics have achieved considerable success in modeling speakers' and listeners' pragmatic reasoning as probabilistic…”
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Investigating the distribution of some (but not all) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods by Degen, Judith

“…A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from some to not all, is that they fall into the class of…”
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Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate by Jasbi, Masoud, Waldon, Brandon, Degen, Judith

“…The past 15 years have seen increasing experimental investigations of core pragmatic questions in the ever more active and lively field of experimental…”
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Evaluative adjective sentences: A question-based analysis of projection by Tonhauser, Judith, de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine, Degen, Judith

“…Two contents of evaluative adjective sentences, like Kim was smart to watch the movie, are the prejacent (that Kim watched the movie) and the generalization…”
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The Rational Speech Act Framework by Degen, Judith

“…The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and…”
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Subjectivity Predicts Adjective Ordering Preferences by Scontras, Gregory, Degen, Judith, Goodman, Noah D.

“…From English to Hungarian to Mokilese, speakers exhibit strong ordering preferences in multi-adjective strings: “the big blue box” sounds far more natural than…”
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Modeling Word and Morpheme Order in Natural Language as an Efficient Trade-Off of Memory and Surprisal by Hahn, Michael, Degen, Judith, Futrell, Richard

“…Memory limitations are known to constrain language comprehension and production, and have been argued to account for crosslinguistic word order regularities…”
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Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint‐Based Approach by Degen, Judith, Tanenhaus, Michael K.

“…Three experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with some using a “gumball paradigm.” On each trial, participants saw an image of a…”
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Prior Beliefs Modulate Projection by Degen, Judith, Tonhauser, Judith

“…Beliefs about the world affect language processing and interpretation in several empirical domains. In two experiments, we tested whether subjective prior…”
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When Redundancy Is Useful: A Bayesian Approach to "Overinformative" Referring Expressions by Degen, Judith, Hawkins, Robert D., Graf, Caroline, Kreiss, Elisa, Goodman, Noah D.

“…Referring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal? Rational…”
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Availability of Alternatives and the Processing of Scalar Implicatures: A Visual World Eye‐Tracking Study by Degen, Judith, Tanenhaus, Michael K.

“…Two visual world experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with some using a “gumball paradigm.” On each trial, participants saw an…”
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A Meta-analysis of Syntactic Satiation in Extraction from Islands by Lu, Jiayi, Frank, Michael, Degen, Judith

“…Sentence acceptability judgments are often affected by a pervasive phenomenon called satiation: native speakers give increasingly higher ratings to initially…”
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Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adults by Elizabeth Swanson, Judith Degen, Michael C Frank

“…Syntactic adaptation may be a key mechanism underlying children’s learning of novel words. Havron et al. (2019) exposed French-speaking children (ages 3 to 4)…”
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How Projective is Projective Content? Gradience in Projectivity and At-issueness by Tonhauser, Judith, Beaver, David I, Degen, Judith

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Talker-specificity and adaptation in quantifier interpretation by Yildirim, Ilker, Degen, Judith, Tanenhaus, Michael K., Jaeger, T. Florian

“…•We study how listeners adjust to talker-specific biases in the use of words.•We focus on the interpretation of quantifiers some and many.•We develop a…”
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Morpheme Ordering Across Languages Reflects Optimization for Processing Efficiency by Hahn, Michael, Mathew, Rebecca, Degen, Judith

“…The ordering of morphemes in a word displays well-documented regularities across languages. Previous work has explained these in terms of notions such as…”
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Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences by Hu, Jennifer, Levy, Roger, Degen, Judith, Schuster, Sebastian

“…Scalar inferences (SI) are a signature example of how humans interpret language based on unspoken alternatives. While empirical studies have demonstrated that…”
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Definitely, maybe: A new experimental paradigm for investigating the pragmatics of evidential devices across languages by Degen, Judith, Trotzke, Andreas, Scontras, Gregory, Wittenberg, Eva, Goodman, Noah D.

“…We present a new experimental paradigm for investigating lexical expressions that convey different strengths of speaker commitment. Specifically, we compare…”
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On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences by Scontras, Gregory, Degen, Judith, Goodman, Noah D.

“…Scontras et al. (2017) present experimental evidence demonstrating that the best predictor of adjective ordering preferences in the English noun phrase is the…”
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