Gradientwordlikeness judgements do not necessarily imply that a gradientwell-formedness system underlies them; gradient judgements may be an artifact of gradient rating tasks. Dubious architectural assumptions are needed for speakers to report gradient well-formedness judgements. Simple baselines beer account for gradient well-formedness judgements than state-of-the-art computational models of...

The paper provides a frequency-based interpretation for conditional belief functions that overcomes the well-formedness problem of DST belief networks by identifying a class of conditional belief functions for which well-formedness is granted.

Though natural language understanding systems have improved markedly in recent years, they have only begun to consider a major problem of truly natural input: ill-formedness. Quite often natural language input is ill-formed in the sense of being misspelled, ungrammatical, or not entirely meaningful. A requirement for any successful natural language interface must be that the system either intel...

Much literature in syntax has assumed that all noun phrases are categorically headed by the determiner or the noun, with well-formedness categorial in nature. In this paper I develop a theory of noun phrase structure in which both categories project noun phrases, arguing that this better fits the indeterminacy of the criteria often cited for determining headedness (Zwicky, 1985, inter alia). Th...

A Declarative Subtyping 6 A.1 Properties of Well-Formedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1 Proposition (Weakening) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2 Proposition (Substitution) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A.2 Reflexivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...