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Interpreting Degree Semantics by Wellwood, Alexis

“…Contemporary research in compositional, truth-conditional semantics often takes judgments of the relative unacceptability of certain phrasal combinations as…”
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Observers Efficiently Extract the Minimal and Maximal Element in Perceptual Magnitude Sets: Evidence for a Bipartite Format by Odic, Darko, Knowlton, Tyler, Wellwood, Alexis, Pietroski, Paul, Lidz, Jeffrey, Halberda, Justin

“…The mind represents abstract magnitude information, including time, space, and number, but in what format is this information stored? We show support for the…”
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Addressing the 'two interface' problem: Comparatives and superlatives by Dunbar, Ewan, Wellwood, Alexis

“…How much meaning can a morpheme have? Syntactic and morphological analyses generally underdetermine when distinctions in meaning between two forms are due to…”
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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study by Hacquard, Valentine, Wellwood, Alexis

“…The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature…”
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On the semantics of comparison across categories by Wellwood, Alexis

“…This paper explores the hypothesis that all comparative sentences—nominal, verbal, and adjectival—contain instances of a single morpheme that compositionally…”
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WHAT more IS by Wellwood, Alexis

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Talking about Causing Events by Wellwood, Alexis, Ritchie, J. Brendan, Vogel, Christopher A, Dudley, Rachel

“…Questions about the nature of the relationship between language and extralinguistic cognition are old, but only recently has a new view emerged that allows for…”
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Processing wh-filler-gap dependencies by Kim, Nayoun, Wellwood, Alexis, Yoshida, Masaya

“…We present experimental evidence showing that different wh-filler-gap dependencies are processed differently, depending on their syntactic licensors. Our…”
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Confidence reports by Cariani, Fabrizio, Santorio, Paolo, Wellwood, Alexis

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Linguistic meanings as cognitive instructions by Knowlton, Tyler, Hunter, Tim, Odic, Darko, Wellwood, Alexis, Halberda, Justin, Pietroski, Paul, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…Natural languages like English connect pronunciations with meanings. Linguistic pronunciations can be described in ways that relate them to our motor system…”
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EXPRESS: Processing Wh-filler-gap Dependencies by Kim, Nayoun, Wellwood, Alexis, Yoshida, Masaya

“…We present experimental evidence showing that different wh-filler-gap dependencies are processed differently, depending on their syntactic licensors. Our…”
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The Anatomy of a Comparative Illusion by Wellwood, Alexis, Pancheva, Roumyana, Hacquard, Valentine, Phillips, Colin

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Problems and Mysteries of the Many Languages of Thought by Mandelbaum, Eric, Dunham, Yarrow, Feiman, Roman, Firestone, Chaz, Green, E. J., Harris, Daniel, Kibbe, Melissa M., Kurdi, Benedek, Mylopoulos, Myrto, Shepherd, Joshua, Wellwood, Alexis, Porot, Nicolas, Quilty‐Dunn, Jake

“…“What is the structure of thought?” is as central a question as any in cognitive science. A classic answer to this question has appealed to a Language of…”
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Events and Processes in Language and Mind by Wellwood, Alexis, He, Angela Xiaoxue, Farkas, Haley

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Addressing the "two interface" problem: Comparatives and superlatives by Dunbar, Ewan, Wellwood, Alexis

“…How much meaning can a morpheme have? Syntactic and morphological analyses are generally underdetermined with regard to whether meaning differences between two…”
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Syntactic and Lexical Inference in the Acquisition of Novel Superlatives by Wellwood, Alexis, Gagliardi, Annie, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…Acquiring the correct meanings of words expressing quantities (seven, most) and qualities (red, spotty) present a challenge to learners. Understanding how…”
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On how verification tasks are related to verification procedures: a reply to Kotek et al by Hunter, Tim, Lidz, Jeffrey, Odic, Darko, Wellwood, Alexis

“…Kotek et al. (Nat Lang Semant 23: 119–156, 2015) argue on the basis of novel experimental evidence that sentences like 'Most of the dots are blue' are…”
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How similar are objects and events? by Wellwood, Alexis, Hespos, Susan J, Rips, Lance

“…Semanticists often assume an ontology for natural language that includes not only ordinary objects, but also events, and other sorts of entities. We link this…”
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Measuring predicates by Wellwood, Alexis

“…Determining the semantic content of sentences, and uncovering regularities between linguistic form and meaning, requires attending to both morphological and…”
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Measuring and Comparing Individuals and Events by WELLWOOD, Alexis, HACQUARD, Valentine, PANCHEVA, Roumyana

“…This squib investigates parallels between nominal and verbal comparatives. Building on key insights of Hackl (2000) and Bale & Barner (2009), we show that more…”
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