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Replicating the typology of linguistic inferences using non-words: From gestures to sound effects to emoji

1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, Princeton

Research in contemporary semantics has uncovered a typology of linguistic inferences, characterized by their conversational status and their behavior in complex sentences. This typology of linguistic inferences is usually thought to be specific to language and in part lexically encoded in the meanings of words. In this talk, I will present experimental evidence of implicatures, […]

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