Projective contents, which include presuppositional inferences and Potts's (2005)
conventional implicatures, are contents that may project when a construction is embedded …

Framing effects have long been viewed as compelling evidence of irrationality in human
decision making, yet that view rests on the questionable assumption that numeric quantifiers …

Research in Experimental Pragmatics has shown that deriving scalar implicatures involves
effort and processing costs. This finding was robust and replicated across a wide variety of …

An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax
and standard principles of semantic composition. In Cardinals, Tania Ionin and Ora …

We present a theory of how people reason about properties. Such inferences have been
studied since Aristotle's invention of Western logic. But, no previous psychological theory …

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is understood to be a disorder that predominantly
affects phonology, morphosyntax and/or lexical semantics. There is little conclusive …

Interpreting a seemingly simple function word like “or,”“behind,” or “more” can require
logical, numerical, and relational reasoning. How are such words learned by children? Prior …

We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers
to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they …

Learners of most languages are faced with the task of acquiring words to talk about number
and quantity. Much is known about the order of acquisition of number words as well as the …

Recent research has shown that the superlative quantifiers at least and at most do not have
the same type of truth conditions as the comparative quantifiers more than (Geurts and …