Distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2019-11-14 DOI:10.3765/sp.12.5

Alexandre Cremers, F. Roelofsen, W. Uegaki

引用次数: 2

Abstract

A sentence like Mary wonders whether Ann, Bill or Carol broke the vase implies that Mary still consider all disjuncts possible. This inference has been referred to as a distributive ignorance inference (Roelofsen & Uegaki 2016). We present two experiments examining the distributive ignorance inferences triggered by two verbs, wonder and believe , with different types of complements and different types of quantificational subjects. The results of these experiments show that the distributive ignorance inferences triggered by the two verbs pattern very much alike. We argue that the data are best explained by an account that involves a strengthening mechanism which is sensitive to the syntactic structure of the complement of the verbs involved and optionally applies locally, as part of the semantic composition process. EARLY ACCESS

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分配性无知以惊奇和相信推断

像玛丽这样的句子想知道是安、比尔还是卡罗尔打碎了花瓶，这意味着玛丽仍然认为所有的间断都是可能的。这种推论被称为分配无知推论（Roelofsen&Uegaki，2016）。我们提出了两个实验来检验由惊奇和相信两个动词引发的分布无知推理，这两个动词具有不同类型的补语和不同类型的定量主语。实验结果表明，这两种动词模式引发的分布无知推理非常相似。我们认为，作为语义合成过程的一部分，数据最好通过一种涉及强化机制的描述来解释，该机制对所涉及动词补语的句法结构敏感，并可选择性地局部应用。早期访问

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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