2020
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02972
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Interpreting Degree Semantics

Abstract: Contemporary research in compositional, truth-conditional semantics often takes judgments of the relative unacceptability of certain phrasal combinations as evidence for lexical semantics. For example, observing that completely full sounds perfectly natural whereas completely tall does not has been used to motivate a distinction whereby the lexical entry for full but not for tall specifies a scalar endpoint. So far, such inferences seem unobjectionable. In general, however, applying this methodology can lead t… Show more

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“…6.2, para. 5), is to suppose that the outputs of (specifically linguistic) language comprehension simply are LoT expressions (e.g., Hunter & Wellwood, 2023; Wellwood, 2020). On the contrary, the pathway from associationistic learning episodes to such representations is rather less direct.…”
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“…6.2, para. 5), is to suppose that the outputs of (specifically linguistic) language comprehension simply are LoT expressions (e.g., Hunter & Wellwood, 2023; Wellwood, 2020). On the contrary, the pathway from associationistic learning episodes to such representations is rather less direct.…”
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confidence: 99%