Search Results - "Tieu, Lyn"

Co-linguistic content inferences: From gestures to sound effects and emoji by Pasternak, Robert, Tieu, Lyn

“…Among other uses, co-speech gestures can contribute additional semantic content to the spoken utterances with which they coincide. A growing body of research…”
Get full text

An experimental investigation of implicature and homogeneity approaches to free choice by Tieu, Lyn, Bill, Cory, Romoli, Jacopo

“…A sentence containing disjunction in the scope of a possibility modal, such as Angie is allowed to buy the boat or the car , gives rise to the free choice…”
Get full text

Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions by Tieu, Lyn, Križ, Manuel, Chemla, Emmanuel

“…Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive The trucks are blue and the negative The trucks aren't blue are both neither true…”
Get full text

Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments by Tieu, Lyn, Pasternak, Robert, Schlenker, Philippe, Chemla, Emmanuel

“…The nature of the semantic contribution of co-speech gestures has been the subject of recent theoretical and experimental investigation. Such gestures have…”
Get full text

Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks by Tieu, Lyn, Pasternak, Robert, Schlenker, Philippe, Chemla, Emmanuel

“…Two main analyses have been proposed to explain how co-speech gestures interact with logical operators. According to the Supplemental analysis (Ebert & Ebert…”
Get full text

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…”
Get full text

Intervention effects in NPI licensing: A quantitative assessment of the scalar implicature explanation by Denić, Milica, Chemla, Emmanuel, Tieu, Lyn

“…This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the…”
Get full text

Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language by Cremers, Alexandre, Kane, Frances, Tieu, Lyn, Kennedy, Lynda, Sudo, Yasutada, Folli, Raffaella, Romoli, Jacopo

“…Sentences involving past tense verbs, such as “My dogs were on the carpet”, tend to give rise to the inference that the corresponding present tense version,…”
Get full text

The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek by Renans, Agata, Romoli, Jacopo, Makri, Maria Margarita, Tieu, Lyn, de Vries, Hanna, Folli, Raffaella, Tsoulas, George

“…Across languages, plural marking on count nouns typically gives rise to a multiplicity inference, indicating that the noun ranges over sums with a cardinality…”
Get full text

Linguistic inferences without words by Tieu, Lyn, Schlenker, Philippe, Chemla, Emmanuel

“…Contemporary semantics has uncovered a sophisticated typology of linguistic inferences, characterized by their conversational status and their behavior in…”
Get full text

EXPRESS: Co-linguistic content inferences: From gestures to sound effects and emoji by Pasternak, Robert, Tieu, Lyn

“…Among other uses, co-speech gestures can contribute additional semantic content to the spoken utterances with which they coincide. A growing body of research…”
Get full text

Social media use by young people with language disorders: a scoping review by Shelton, Nichola, Munro, Natalie, Starling, Julia, Tieu, Lyn, Keep, Melanie

“…Social media are widely used by young people (YP), but how YP with language disorders use social media for social interaction remains insufficiently studied…”
Get full text

Testing theories of plural meanings by Tieu, Lyn, Bill, Cory, Romoli, Jacopo, Crain, Stephen

“…Plural morphology in English is associated with a multiplicity inference. For example, “Emily fed giraffes” is typically interpreted to mean that Emily fed…”
Get full text

Do speech–language therapists support young people with communication disability to use social media? A mixed methods study of professional practices by Shelton, Nichola, Munro, Natalie, Keep, Melanie, Starling, Julia, Tieu, Lyn

“…Background Social media is increasingly used by young people, including those with communication disability. To date, though, little is known about how…”
Get full text

On children’s variable success with scalar inferences: Insights from disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier by Pagliarini, Elena, Bill, Cory, Romoli, Jacopo, Tieu, Lyn, Crain, Stephen

“…Previous developmental studies have revealed variation in children’s ability to compute scalar inferences. While children have been shown to struggle with…”
Get full text

Isomorphism for All (but Not Both): Floating as a Means to Investigate Scope by Tieu, Lyn

“…This article investigates the so-called isomorphism effect (Musolino 1998; Musolino, Crain & Thornton 2000) in the comprehension of scopally ambiguous…”
Get full text

Children's Knowledge of Free Choice Inferences and Scalar Implicatures by Tieu, Lyn, Romoli, Jacopo, Zhou, Peng, Crain, Stephen

“…Abstract This article presents experimental results showing that 4- and 5-year-old children are capable of drawing free choice inferences from disjunctive…”
Get full text

Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji: Inferences of co-, pro-, and post-text emoji by Tieu, Lyn, Qiu, Jimmy L, Puvipalan, Vaishnavy, Pasternak, Robert

“…Emoji symbols are widely used in online communication, particularly in instant messaging and on social media platforms. Existing research draws comparisons…”
Get full text

NPI Licensing and Beyond: Children's Knowledge of the Semantics of Any by Tieu, Lyn, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…This article presents a study of preschool-aged children's knowledge of the semantics of the negative polarity item (NPI) any. NPIs like any differ in…”
Get full text

EXPRESS: Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji: Inferences of co-, pro-, and post-text emoji by Tieu, Lyn, Qiu, Jimmy L, Puvipalan, Vaishnavy, Pasternak, Robert

“…Emoji symbols are widely used in online communication, particularly in instant messaging and on social media platforms. Existing research draws comparisons…”
Get full text