Titlebook: Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics; Henk Zeevat,Hans-Christian Schmitz Book 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzer

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,Causal Bayesian Networks, Signalling Games and Implicature of ‘,’,a are taken from the study of Cummins et al. (.). They showed that subjects infer upper bounds for the true number . when ‘.’ has been used. They also showed that the difference between upper and lower bounds differs with the roundness of .. We show how the data can be explained by a production mode

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Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Logic for Better Questions and Answers,n order to compare the goodness of answers, they use qualitative orderings among answers. Groenendijk and Stokhof’s qualitative method is too coarse-grained to achieve the goal. In order to overcome the limitations, van Rooij (Formal theories of information: from Shannon to semantic information theo

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Conditionals, Conditional Probabilities, and Conditionalization,obability of a conditional ‘.., ..’ and the conditional probability of ., given .. Attempts to account for this intuition within a general probabilistic theory of belief, meaning and use have been plagued by a danger of trivialization, which has proven to be remarkably recalcitrant and absorbed much

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Shannon Versus Chomsky: Brain Potentials and the Syntax-Semantics Distinction,e been widely claimed to be the neurological correlates of semantic and syntactic anomalies, respectively, but evidence accumulated over the last decade has raised some serious doubts about that interpretation. In this paper, I first review some of this evidence and then present an alternative way t

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Orthogonality and Presuppositions: A Bayesian Perspective, operators that suspend the truth of a proposition have no effect on the presupposition it is associated with. For instance, with ., the main content (that Paul does not smoke) is canceled by the negation whereas the presupposition that Paul has been smoking is left untouched. It has been observed t