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Acoustic classification of focus in a web corpus of comparatives
(2011-06-02)Describes experiments in using a support-vector-machine to classify intonational focus on pronouns in a web-derived corpus of comparative clauses. -
Acoustic Classification of Focus: On the Web and in the Lab
(2016-02-26)We present a new methodological approach which combines both naturally-occurring speech “harvested” on the web and speech data elicited in the laboratory. This proof-of-concept study examines the phenomenon of focus ... -
Adverbs of quantification
(2019-07-12)Article on David Lewis's Adverbs of Quantification (1975), prepared for A Reader's Guide to Classical Papers in Formal Semantics, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 100, edited by Zoltan Szabo and Luise McNally. Author's ... -
Almost Everything Is Relative in the Caucasus
(2009-06-30)From the Proceedings of SALT XVIII, 2008 -
Alternative semantics
(Oxford University Press, 2016)This chapter presents the semantics and pragmatics of prosodic focus in alternative semantics. Half a dozen examples are given of empirical phenomena that are to be covered by the theory. Then a syntax marking the locus, ... -
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An Analysis of Existential Anankastics: How to Get There from Here
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The Anaphoric Theory of Tense
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Antonymy and Evaluativity
(CLC Publications, Cornell University, 2007) -
Applying Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics to Co-reference in Picture Sequences
(2012-12-15)This paper looks at co‐indexing in pictorial narratives such as comics. Using a formal‐semantic model of the content of pictures, it is argued that depicted objects are existentially quantified, and are identified post ... -
Arabic-Self Learning Curriculum
(Nimat Hafez Barazangi, 1995)This program, available in a prototype, uses the spatial and thematic metaphor of a home in Damascus, Syria, and a classroom at Damascus University to access the learner to myriad learning experiences in a contextually-based ... -
Association with Focus
(GLSA, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985) -
Attitudes without Monsters: A Japanese Perspective
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Between Kinds and Properties: Bare Plurals across Languages
(CLC Publications, Cornell University, 2007) -
Beyond Truth Conditions: The Semantics of most
(2009-06-30)From the Proceedings of SALT XVIII, 2008 -
The Blindness Hypothesis and Individual Level Predicates
(CLC Publications, 2006) -
Bodyguards under Cover: the Status of Individual Concepts
(CLC Publications, Cornell University, 2007) -
Causative and Non-Causative Verbs
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Circumstantial and Temporal Dependence in Counterfactual Modals
(2012-02-19)“Counterfactual” readings of might/could have were previously analyzed using metaphysical modal bases. This paper presents examples and scenarios where the assumptions of such a branching-time semantics are not met, because ...
