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Provide a compositional semantic theory that associates each of the following word-strings witha correct truth-condition (or in the case of ambiguity, correct truth-conditions) in a way that alsohelps...
Concepts,Meanings and Truth:First Nature,Second Nature and Hard Work
Concepts Meanings Truth First Nature Second Nature Hard Work
2015/9/2
I argue that linguistic meanings are instructions to build monadic concepts that lie between lexicalizable concepts and truth-evaluable judgments. In acquiring words, humans use concepts of various ad...
Most theories of comprehension assume that every word in an utterance is comprehended by selecting its intended sense from a short exhaustive list of potential senses in the mental lexicon. This assum...
Word meanings across languages support efficient communication
Word meanings languages communication
2015/6/24
Why do languages have the semantic categories they do? Each language partitions human experience into a system of semantic categories, labeled by words or morphemes, which are used to communicate abou...
Inferring word meanings by assuming that speakers are informative
Language acquisition Pragmatics Word learning
2015/6/24
Language comprehension is more than a process of decoding the
literal meaning of a speaker’s utterance. Instead, by making the
assumption that speakers choose their words to be informative
in conte...
Conventional implicatures,a distinguished class of meanings
Conventional implicatures distinguished class
2015/6/15
The history of conventional implicatures is rocky, their current status uncertain. It seems wise to return to their source and start fresh, with an open-minded reading of the original definition (Gric...
The meanings of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis
interpretation-based category cross-linguistic analysis
2015/4/24
Focus is regularly treated as a cross-linguistically stable category that is merely manifested by different structural means in different languages, such that a common focus feature may be realised th...
Meanings of the unmarked: How 'default' person reference does more than just refer
design these pract
2015/3/31
This chapter explores one way in which members of a culture work to achieve
the appearance of ordinariness, and in so doing render invisible their most
heartfelt concerns. The target locus of behavi...
At 6–9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns
At 6–9 months human infants know the meanings many common nouns
2014/5/7
It is widely accepted that infants begin learning their native language not by learning words, but by discovering features of the speech signal: consonants, vowels, and combinations of these sounds. L...
Similar words, Different Meanings：A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Exploration of Cultural Differences
Similar words Natural Semantic Metalanguage Exploration Different Meanings
2009/10/10
Anna Wierbicka and other writers of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) often argue that anthropologists and psychologists, particularly Western ones, are wrong for applying concepts like m...
Teaching Word Meanings by Stahl and Nagy is a book written for teachers of young native speakers of English. Stahl and Nagy are very well known figures in research in first language vocabulary and rea...
Wh-questions in Spanish：Meanings and Configuration Variability
prosody intonation, meaning information structure wh-questions tonal configurations contour variability Latin American Spanish
2009/7/13
This paper describes the distinct tonal configurations of wh-questions in Spanish and discusses their
possible correlations with pragmatic and interactional meanings. The data consisted of both read
...
Spanish Preterite and Imperfect in Conversations：The Pragmatic Meanings
Conventions of use conversation cooperative principles discourse pragmatic meaning semantic meaning Spanish aspect
2009/3/2
Conversations differ from story telling in that inputs come from all interlocutors rather than the author alone. To maintain communication speakers observe the Cooperative Principle (Grice 1975). This...
Spanish Preterite and Imperfect in Conversations：The Pragmatic Meanings
Conventions of use conversation cooperative principles discourse pragmatic meaning semantic meaning Spanish aspect
2009/2/26
Conversations differ from story telling in that inputs come from all interlocutors rather than the author alone. To maintain communication speakers observe the Cooperative Principle (Grice 1975). This...
Wh-questions in Spanish : Meanings and Configuration Variability
prosody intonation meaning information structure wh-questions
2010/9/8
This paper describes the distinct tonal configurations of wh-questions in Spanish and discusses their possible correlations with pragmatic and interactional meanings. The data consisted of both read a...