Sources of Meaning: Grounding Formal Semantics

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Social factors drive vocal exchanges in red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)

Author(s): Bastien Meunier; Virginie Durier; Aline Giacalone; Camille Coye; Alban Lemasson
Published in: The Science of Nature, 2023, ISSN 0028-1042
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-023-01830-3

Triggering Presuppositions

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 6/1, 2021, Page(s) 35, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1352

Inside Out: A Note on the Hierarchical Update of Nominal Modifiers

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 5/1, 2020, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1130

Boundaries in space and time: Iconic biases across modalities

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn, Carlo Geraci, Philippe Schlenker, Brent Strickland
Published in: Cognition, Issue 210, 2021, Page(s) 104596, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104596

Iconic presuppositions

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Issue 39/1, 2021, Page(s) 215-289, ISSN 0167-806X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-020-09473-z

Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations

Author(s): Carlo Geraci, Lena Pasalskaya, Sharon Peperkamp
Published in: Linguistics Vanguard, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 275-284, ISSN 2199-174X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2024-0070

Inconsistent effects of components as evidence for non-compositionality in chimpanzee face-gesture combinations? A response to Oña et al (2019)

Author(s): Maxime Cauté, Emmanuel Chemla, Philippe Schlenker
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) e16800, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16800

Measuring sign complexity: Comparing a model-driven and an error-driven approach

Author(s): Justine Mertz, Chiara Annucci, Valentina Aristodemo, Beatrice Giustolisi, Doriane Gras, Giuseppina Turco, Carlo Geraci, Caterina Donati
Published in: Laboratory Phonology, Issue 24, 2022, ISSN 1868-6354
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/labphon.6439

The dynamics of negative concord

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-020-09318-3

Gather/numerous as a mass/count opposition

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn
Published in: Natural Language Semantics, Issue 28/3, 2020, Page(s) 225-253, ISSN 0925-854X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-020-09163-x

Super Linguistics: an introduction

Author(s): Pritty Patel-Grosz, Salvador Mascarenhas, Emmanuel Chemla, Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, Issue 46, 2023, Page(s) 627-692, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-022-09377-8

Laypeople Have Difficulty Processing Efficiency When Assessing Environmental Policies

Author(s): Antoine Marie, Hugo Trad, Brent Strickland
Published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2025, ISSN 2398-063X
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/sed4w_v7

Syntax and Semantics of Music: Preface

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Jurgis Skilters
Published in: Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 1944-3676
Publisher: New Prairie Press
DOI: 10.4148/1944-3676.1127

As strong as an NPI in LSF, NGT and LIS

Author(s): Carlo Geraci, Marloes Oomen, Mirko Santoro
Published in: Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 125, ISSN 2163-5951
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5353

Iconological Semantics

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, Issue 47, 2024, Page(s) 779-838, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-024-09411-x

Some properties of neg-raising in three sign languages

Author(s): Marloes Oomen, Mirko Santoro, Carlo Geraci
Published in: FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 145-155, ISSN 2565-1781
Publisher: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
DOI: 10.31009/feast.i5.12

Timelines and Temporal Pointing in Chinese Sign Language

Author(s): Hao Lin, Jeremy Kuhn, Huan Sheng & Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5836

Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits

Author(s): Camille Coye, Mylène Dutour
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 221, 2025, Page(s) 123050, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.12.006

Measuring sign complexity: Comparing a model- driven and an error-driven approach

Author(s): Mertz, Justine; Annucci, Chiara; Aristodemo, Valentina; Giustolisi, Beatrice; Gras, Doriane; Turco, Giuseppina; Geraci, Carlo; Donati, Caterina
Published in: Laboratory Phonology, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1868-6346
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities

Budding the tree. Towards a theory of structure removal

Author(s): Carlo Geraci
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5759

Dance displays in gibbons: biological and linguistic perspectives on structured, intentional, and rhythmic body movement

Author(s): Camille Coye, Kai R. Caspar, Pritty Patel-Grosz
Published in: Primates, Issue 66, 2025, Page(s) 61-73, ISSN 0032-8332
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-024-01154-4

Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations

Author(s): Jonathan F. Kominsky, Lewis Baker, Frank C. Keil, Brent Strickland
Published in: Memory & Cognition, Issue 49, 2023, Page(s) 518-531, ISSN 0090-502X
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-020-01102-9

Negative concord in Russian Sign Language

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn, Lena Pasalskaya
Published in: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Issue 41, 2023, Page(s) 207-248, ISSN 0167-806X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-022-09546-1

Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Camille Coye, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Nathan Klinedinst, Emmanuel Chemla
Published in: Cognitive Science, 2023, ISSN 1551-6709
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13220

Musical meaning within Super Semantics

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, Issue 45, 2022, Page(s) 795-872, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09329-8

Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits

Author(s): Ambre Salis, Flavien Badaire, Camille Coye, Mael Leroux, Thierry Lengagne, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 216, 2024, Page(s) 63-71, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.07.020

Iconic Syntax: sign language classifier predicates and gesture sequences

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Marion Bonnet, Jonathan Lamberton, Jason Lamberton, Emmanuel Chemla, Mirko Santoro, Carlo Geraci
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, Issue 47, 2024, Page(s) 77-147, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-023-09388-z

Meaningful Blurs: the sources of repetition-based plurals in ASL

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker; Jonathan Lamberton
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1573-0549
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-020-09312-9

Supplements without Bidimensionalism

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Linguistic Inquiry, 2023, ISSN 0024-3892
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00442

Domain restriction: the problem of the variable location revisited

Author(s): Diego Feinmann
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, Issue 45, 2022, Page(s) 1197-1226, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09328-9

Non-local attachment of clausesEvidence from ASL

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2020, ISSN 0167-806X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-020-09486-8

Groups versus covers revisited: Structured pluralities and symmetric readings

Author(s): Brian Buccola; Jeremy Kuhn; David Nicolas
Published in: Natural Language Semantics, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 0925-854X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-021-09179-x

Focus and Intensification in the Semantics of Brow Raise

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2020, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5706

Anti‐Babel: Three degrees of interspecies comprehension

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Camille Coye, Ambre Salis, Shane Steinert‐Threlkeld, Lucie Ravaux, Emmanuel Chemla
Published in: Mind & Language, 2025, ISSN 0268-1064
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12529

Moralization and extremism robustly amplify myside sharing

Author(s): Antoine Marie, Sacha Altay, Brent Strickland
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad078

Logical meaning in space: Iconic biases on quantification in sign languages

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn
Published in: https://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ijn_03090257, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) e320-e343, ISSN 1535-0665
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2020.0082

The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis

Author(s): O’MADAGAIN, Cathal, KACHEL, Gregor, et STRICKLAND, Brent
Published in: Science Advances, 2019, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Jason Lamberton, Jonathan Lamberton
Published in: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Issue 43, 2025, Page(s) 2039-2100, ISSN 0167-806X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-025-09660-w

Janus sentences: a puzzle for theories of local implicatures

Author(s): Keny Chatain, Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Journal of Semantics, Issue 42, 2025, Page(s) 75-96, ISSN 0167-5133
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffaf001

How Fair is Gender-Fair Language? Insights from Gender Ratio Estimations in French

Author(s): Hualin Xiao, Brent Strickland, Sharon Peperkamp
Published in: Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Issue 42, 2025, Page(s) 82-106, ISSN 0261-927X
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0261927x221084643

Animal linguistics: a primer

Author(s): Mélissa Berthet; Camille Coye; Guillaume Dezecache; Jeremy Kuhn
Published in: Biological Reviews, 2023, Page(s) 81-98, ISSN 1464-7931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12897

Non-local attachment of clauses

Author(s): Schlenker, Philippe
Published in: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1573-0859
Publisher: Springer Nature

Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago

Author(s): Ambre Salis, Robin J. Ryder, Axel Molina, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-05497-w

Animal linguistics in the making: the Urgency Principle and titi monkeys’ alarm system

Author(s): Sabaté, Lara Narbona; Mesbahi, Geoffrey; Dezecache, Guillaume; Cäsar, Cristiane; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Berthet, Mélissa
Published in: Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 2022, Page(s) Volume 34, pp 378-394, ISSN 0394-9370
Publisher: Universita degli Studi di Firenze
DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2021.2015452

Subclausal Local Contexts

Author(s): Amir Anvari, Kyle Blumberg
Published in: Journal of Semantics, 2021, ISSN 0167-5133
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffab004

Modelling contrast and feature inventory: the nature of [web] in French Sign Language

Author(s): Justine Mertz, Carlo Geraci
Published in: Phonology, Issue 40, 2024, Page(s) 291-314, ISSN 0952-6757
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0952675724000095

Formal Models at the Core

Author(s): Emmanuel Chemla, Isabelle Charnavel, Isabelle Dautriche, David Embick, Fred Lerdahl, Pritty Patel‐Grosz, David Poeppel, Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 47, 2024, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13267

Core cognition in adult vision: A surprising discrepancy between the principles of object continuity and solidity

Author(s): Andreas Falck; Ghislaine Labouret; Véronique Izard; Annie E. Wertz; Frank C. Keil; Brent Strickland
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020, Page(s) 149(12), 2250, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000785

Referential and general calls in primate semantics

Author(s): Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09322-1

What is Super Semantics?

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Philosophical Perspectives, 2019, ISSN 1520-8583
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/phpe.12122

Linguistic inferences from pro-speech music

Author(s): Léo Migotti, Janek Guerrini
Published in: Linguistics and Philosophy, Issue 46, 2023, Page(s) 989-1026, ISSN 0165-0157
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-022-09376-9

Dramatic decline in a titi monkey population after the 2016-2018 sylvatic yellow fever outbreak in Brazil.

Author(s): Mélissa Berthet; Geoffrey Mesbahi; Guilhem Duvot; Klaus Zuberbühler; Cristiane Cäsar; Júlio César Bicca-Marques
Published in: American Journal of Primatology, 2021, Page(s) Volume83, Issue12, ISSN 0275-2565
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23335

Moral commitment to gender equality increases (mis)perceptions of gender bias in hiring

Author(s): Antoine Marie, Hualin Xiao, Brent Strickland
Published in: European Journal of Social Psychology, 2024, ISSN 1099-0992
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/guw6v

Gestural grammar

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker
Published in: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Issue 38/3, 2020, Page(s) 887-936, ISSN 0167-806X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-019-09460-z

Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls

Author(s): Ambre Salis, Jean-Paul Léna, Thierry Lengagne
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue 34, 2023, Page(s) 941-949, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arad061

Word learning tasks as a window into the triggering problem for presuppositions

Author(s): Nadine Bade, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla
Published in: Natural Language Semantics, Issue 32, 2024, Page(s) 473-503, ISSN 0925-854X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-024-09224-5

Deriving dimensions of comparison

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn, David Brian Buccola Nicolas, Brian Buccola
Published in: Snippets, 2024, Page(s) 1-3, ISSN 1590-1807
Publisher: Led Edizioni Universitarie
DOI: 10.7358/snip-2022-043-knbu

Minimal Compositionality<i>versus</i>Bird Implicatures: two theories of<scp>ABC‐D</scp>sequences in Japanese tits

Author(s): Philippe Schlenker, Ambre Salis, Maël Leroux, Camille Coye, Luigi Rizzi, Shane Steinert‐Threlkeld, Emmanuel Chemla
Published in: Biological Reviews, Issue 99, 2024, Page(s) 1278-1297, ISSN 1464-7931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.13068

Groups vs. covers revisited: Evidence from symmetric readings of sentences with plurals

Author(s): Buccola, Brian; Kuhn, Jeremy; NICOLAS, David
Published in: Workshop 'Cross-linguistic semantics of reciprocals', 2020, Issue 3, 2020
Publisher: ross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals

Discourse anaphora – theoretical perspectives

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research, 2021, Page(s) 458-479
Publisher: Quer, Pfau and Herrmann

Disjunctive discourse referents in French Sign Language

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v31i0.5116

Generalizing Polarity Sensitive Items to Positive Environments in an Artificial Language

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn , Mora Maldonado
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, 2022
Publisher: Amsterdam: ILLC, UvA

A superlinguistics of hyperlink ‘pointing’

Author(s): Kuhn, Jeremy; Lorin, Louis-Marie
Published in: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, Issue 2, 2020
Publisher: Queen Mary University of London
DOI: 10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.952

On Elicited Data in Sign Language Syntax

Author(s): Lettieri, Jessica, Mirko Santoro & Carlo Geraci
Published in: Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory, 2023
Publisher: Raco
DOI: 10.31009/feast.i5.08

Guerrini (2022), `Like a N' constructions and genericity

Author(s): Guerrini, Janek
Published in: Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: D.M. McHugh
DOI: 10.21942/uva.20368104

The puzzle of Reflexive Belief Construction in Spanish

Author(s): Amir Anvari Mora Maldonado Andrés Soria Ruiz
Published in: 2019
Publisher: M.Teresa Espinal, Elena Castroviejo, Manuel Leonetti, Louise McNally, and Cristina Real-Puigdollers
DOI: 10.18148/sub/2019.v23i1.503

A dynamic semantics for multimodal communication

Author(s): Kuhn Jeremy
Published in: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Animal linguistics and the puzzle of titi monkeys alarm sequences

Author(s): Berthet M., Benjumea J., Millet J., Cäsar C., Zuberbühler K., Dunbar E.
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Julian J. Schlöder, Dean McHugh & Floris Roelofsen

Do l'Hoest's monkeys show sensitivity to conspecifics' informational state?

Author(s): Lola Mg Rivoal; Guillaume Dezecache; Mélissa Berthet; Audrey Maille
Published in: BioRxiv, 2020
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.29.067686

The many meanings of an NPI: the view from artificial language learning

Author(s): Jeremy Kuhn, Mora Maldonado
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/cpg7b_v1

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