Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural language, which has been studied from a range
of perspectives. This review focuses on recent empirical insights into vagueness that have …

Binary classification, an act of sorting items into two classes by setting a boundary, is biased
by recent history. One common form of such bias is repulsive bias, a tendency to sort an item …

Adjectives are essential for describing and differentiating concepts. However, they have a
protracted development relative to other word classes. Here we measure three-and four …

Semantic theories differ in the role they assume for degrees in the interpretation of gradable
adjectives, and in the assumptions they make about the nature of degrees and the structure …

The interpretation of size terms involves constructing contextually-relevant reference points
by combining visual cues with knowledge of typical object sizes. This study aims to establish …

Whether there is a one-to-one mapping between semantic categories and their syntactic
counterparts has been the subject of extensive research in linguistic theory (eg Grimshaw …

Long-lasting interference effects in picture naming are induced when objects are presented
in categorically related contexts in both continuous and blocked cyclic paradigms. Less …

When sorting a sequence of stimuli into binary classes, current choices are often negatively
correlated with recent stimulus history. This phenomenon—dubbed the repulsive bias—can …

Research on the acquisition of relevance implicatures usually shows that it is not until age
six that children learn to draw relevance inferences. However, Schulze et al.(in press) …

The topics of adjective meaning and scalarity offer a prime example of the benefits of
experimental research in formal semantics. This chapter presents a series of case studies …