The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure Experimental Perspectives /

This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness. It presents support for and challenges to current formal analyses of these phenomena in view of experimentally collected data, highlighting the ways semantic and pra...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Language, Cognition, and Mind, 4
Schlagworte:
Semantics.
Cognitive psychology.
Pragmatics.
Psycholinguistics.
ISBN:9783319777917
ISSN:2364-4109 ;
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: From the Armchair to the Lab, Elena Castroviejo, Louise McNally, Galit W. Sassoon
  • Are Gaps Preferred to Gluts? A closer look at borderline contradictions, Paul Egré, Jérémy Zehr
  • Multidimensionality, subjectivity and scales: Experimental evidence, Stephanie Solt
  • Online processing of "real" and "fake": The cost of being too strong, Petra Schumacher, Patrick Brandt, Hanna Weiland-Breckle
  • Education as a source of vagueness in criteria and degree, Steven Verheyen, Gert Storms
  • Intensification, gradability and social perception: The case of totally, Andrea Beltrama
  • Perceived Informativity and Referential Effects of Contrast in Adjectivally Modified NPs, Helena Aparicio, Chris Kennedy, Ming Xiang
  • Modified fractions, granularity and scale structure, Chris Cummins
  • Decomposition and processing of negative adjectival comparatives, Barbara M. Tomaszewicz, Daniel Tucker, Alexis Wellwood
  • Cumulative comparison: Experimental evidence for degree cumulation, Rick Nouwen, Jakub Dotlačil.

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