We present a number of experiments testing influential hypotheses about the meaning of
definite descriptions (in languages with articles, represented here by German) and bare …

Contemporary formal semantics was born from the project to treat natural languages as
formal languages, not just in their syntactic component (as generative syntax had done), but …

Two main analyses have been proposed to explain how co-speech gestures interact with
logical operators. According to the Supplemental analysis (Ebert & Ebert 2014), co-speech …

The nature of the semantic contribution of co-speech gestures has been the subject of recent
theoretical and experimental investigation. Such gestures have been reported to give rise to …

A direct scalar implicature (DSI) arises when a sentence with a weaker term like sometimes
implies the negation of the stronger alternative always (eg, John sometimes (∼ not always) …

Emoji symbols are widely used in online communication, particularly in instant messaging
and on social media platforms. Existing research draws comparisons between the functions …

Abstract Language has a rich typology of inferential types. It was recently shown that
subjects are able to divide the informational content of new visual stimuli among the various …

In this paper, we show that native speakers spontaneously divide the complex meaning of a
new word into a presuppositional component and an assertive component. These results …

The Interface Hypothesis proposes that second language (L2) learners, even at highly
proficient levels, often fail to integrate information at the external interfaces where grammar …

Presuppositions are traditionally understood as a set of backgrounded, and thus not-at-
issue, projective inferences that are taken for granted by communicators. In the last decades …