We analyze human's disagreements about the validity of natural language inferences. We
show that, very often, disagreements are not dismissible as annotation “noise”, but rather …

Renewed interest in psychedelics has reignited the debate about whether and how they
change human beliefs. In both the clinical and social-cognitive domains, psychedelic …

Attitude verbs, such as think, want, and know, describe internal mental states that leave few
cues as to their meanings in the physical world. Consequently, their acquisition requires …

The role of veridicality and factivity in clause selection Page 1 The role of veridicality and
factivity in clause selection Aaron Steven White 1 Kyle Rawlins 2 NELS 48 University of …

How do children learn the meanings of propositional attitude verbs? We argue that children
use information contained in both syntactic distribution and pragmatic function to zero in on …

Why do predicates like know embed both declarative and interrogative clauses, whereas
closely related ones like believe only embed the former? The standard approach following …

Words have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their
acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and …

Concept analysis is an established genre of inquiry in nursing, introduced in the 1970s.
Currently, over 100 concept studies are published annually, yet the methods used within this …

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how young children solve the puzzle of
mapping spoken words to their meanings. The influential syntactic bootstrapping theory …

How do children discover which linguistic expressions are associated with presuppositions?
Do they take a direct strategy of tracking whether linguistic expressions are associated with …