Judith Degen

5 paper cards in Mova's library · 2015–2023

Judith Degen wrote 5 of the papers Mova reads, in 2015–2023, most of them on Implicature; often with Sebastian Schuster, Elissa Li, Jennifer Hu.

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Papers

Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences (2023)
Scalar inferences ("some" implies "not all") vary a lot from one instance to another, and across scales such as "good, excellent".
Predicting scalar inferences from "or" to "not both" using neural sentence encoders (2021)
A short paper extending the «some → not all» strength studies (Degen 2015; Schuster et al. 2020) to «or → not both». 1,244 Switchboard sentences with or were rated, in context, for how close they are to the same sentence with «but not both» added, on a slider and on a 1–7 scale. Strength varies widely and individual…
Harnessing the linguistic signal to predict scalar inferences (2020)
The paper asks whether a neural sentence encoder can predict how strongly listeners draw the «not all» inference from an utterance with some.
Evaluative adjective sentences: A question-based analysis of projection (2020)
In "Kim was smart to watch the movie", the prejacent (Kim watched the movie) is usually analysed as a lexical presupposition.
Investigating the distribution of some (but not all) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods (2015)
The paper tests the textbook view that «some → not all» is a generalized implicature that arises by default, uniformly, regardless of context.