Semanticists have demonstrated repeatedly over the past twenty years that intonation often conveys information important for determining the content of a discourse. For example, intonation is important for marking focus in English, which in turn is important for interpreting sentences with focus sensitive adverbs like even and only (Beaver and Clark 2003). Intonation is also important in markin...

A memory-based processing approach to discourse comprehension emphasizes the rapid deployment of information in memory to facilitate understanding of the text that is currently being read. S. B. Greene, R. J. Gerrig, G. McKoon, and R. Ratcliff (1994) demonstrated that when a text described the reunion of 2 characters who had previously discussed a 3rd character, the accessibility of the 3rd cha...

3D shape modeling is a crucial component of rapid prototyping systems that customize shapes of implants and prosthetic devices to a patient's anatomy. In this paper, we present a solution to the problem of customized 3D shape modeling using a statistical shape analysis framework. We design a novel method to learn the relationship between two classes of shapes, which are related by certain opera...

The paper presents a novel existential account of the additive particle too. The analysis is based on a combination of compositional DPLstyle dynamic semantics and pragmatic reasoning. The existential presupposition is formalised in a dynamic semantics for too, while pragmatic principles control for correct resolution of the parallel reference made. The main empirical challenge addressed in the...

This paper discusses a planner of the semantics of utterances, whose essential design is an epistemic theorem prover. The planner was designed for the purpose of planning communicative actions, whose effects are famously unknowable and unobservable by the doer/speaker, and depend on the beliefs of and inferences made by the recipient/hearer. The fully implemented model can achieve goals that do...

The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast the movement of a contrastive constituent to dedicated, left-peripheral position. For Italian and Spanish, it has been claimed focus fronting (FF) must be sanctioned by interpretation focus, while non-contrastive generally occurs postverbally (see, e.g., Rizzi 1997; Zubizarreta 1998; Belletti 2004; López 2009). Only se...

There is debate among linguists as to whether overt subject pronouns (SPs) are pragmatically obligatory in contrastive contexts. While many authors would argue that SPs necessary maintain a felicitous utterance (e.g. Cameron 1995; Silva-Corvalán 1994; Solomon 1999; Mayol 2010; Posio 2011), numerous researchers have challenged this view Enríquez 1984; Schwenter 2002; Amaral & 2005; Otheguy Z...

An influential critique of anger holds that comes at an important epistemic cost. In particular, feeling angry typically makes risk less visible to us. This is anger’s ‘red mist.’ These costs, critics suggest, arguably outweigh the benefits commonly ascribed anger. essay argues importantly misleading. not because it underestimates benefits, but rather overlooks fact red mist performs a crucial ...

The importance of post-CCSD(T) corrections as high CCSDTQ56 for ground-state spectroscopic constants ($D_e$, $\omega_e$, $\omega_ex_e$, and $\alpha_e$) has been surveyed a sample two dozen mostly heavy-atom diatomics spanning broad range static correlation strength. While CCSD(T) is known to be an unusually felicitous `Pauling point' between accuracy computational cost, performance leaves somet...

I present a new observation with regard to the felicity of using even: There is no apparent focus/QUD congruence for even-sentences. For example, Even Mary came cannot be used answer question like who or was unlikely come. Instead, felicitous use address issues how successful exhibition was, enthusiastic people were, urgent matter etc. Thus propose that even QUD-sensitive, always contextually s...