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 pragmatics …

In this paper, we argue that embodiment can play an important role in the design and
modeling of systems developed for Human Computer Interaction. To this end, we describe a …

Scalar inferences (SI) are a signature example of how humans interpret language based on
unspoken alternatives. While empirical studies have demonstrated that human SI rates are …

Properties of the content of the clausal complement have long been assumed to distinguish
factive predicates like know from nonfactive ones like think (Kiparsky & Kiparsky 1970, inter …

Probabilistic models of language understanding are valuable tools for investigating human
language use. However, they need to be hand-designed for a particular domain. In contrast …

In this paper we articulate a pragmatic account of the projection behavior of three classes of
non-anaphoric projective contents: the pre-states of change of state (CoS) predicates, the …

We show that the wide range in strengths of intensifying degree adverbs (eg very and
extremely) can be partly explained by pragmatic inference based on differing cost, rather …

Beliefs about the world affect language processing and interpretation in several empirical
domains. In two experiments, we tested whether subjective prior beliefs about the probability …

Abstract Language is one of the hallmarks of intelligence, demanding explanation in a
theory of human cognition. However, language presents unique practical challenges for …

Abstract The Rational Speech Acts (RSA) framework has been applied to an increasing
number of linguistic phenomena. Despite its promise as a model of conversational …