{"id":419,"date":"2021-07-30T21:55:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T01:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=419"},"modified":"2021-08-18T21:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T01:58:47","slug":"dionne-coppock-2021-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2021\/07\/30\/dionne-coppock-2021-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionne &#038; Coppock (2021) published!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Dionne &amp; Elizabeth Coppock published &#8220;Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature&#8221; in the first-ever volume of <em>Experiments in Linguistic Meaning<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/proceedings\/index.php\/ELM\/article\/view\/5013\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Cite as:  Dionne, Danielle and Elizabeth Coppock (2021). Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature. In Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz, and Anna Papafragou (eds.), <em>Experiments in Linguistic Meaning<\/em>, Vol. 1, pp. 147&#8211;158<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:   This paper addresses the question of how to predict which alternatives are active in scalar implicature calculation, and the nature of this activation. It has been observed that <em>finger<\/em> implicates &#8216;not thumb&#8217;, and a Manner-based explanation for this has been proposed, predicting that if English had the simplex Latin word <em>pollex<\/em> meaning &#8216;thumb or big toe&#8217;, then finger would cease to have the implicature &#8216;not thumb&#8217; that it has. It has also been suggested that this hypothetical <em>pollex<\/em> would have to be sufficiently colloquial in order to figure in scalar implicature calculation. This paper makes this thought experiment into a real one by using a language that behaves in exactly this way: Spanish has <em>pulgar<\/em> &#8216;thumb&#8217; (&lt; <em>pollex<\/em>), a non-colloquial form. We first use a fill-in-the-blank production task with both English and Spanish speakers to guage the likelihood with which a speaker will produce a given form as a way of describing a given digit. Production frequency does not perfectly track complexity, so we can then ask whether comprehension follows production frequency or complexity. We do so using a forced choice comprehension task, which reveals cross-linguistic differences in comprehension tracking production probabilities. A comparison between two RSA models &#8212; one in which the speaker perfectly replicates our production data and a standard one in which the speaker chooses based on a standard cost\/accuracy trade-off &#8212; illustrates the fact that comprehension is much more closely tied to production probability than to the mere existence of sufficiently simple alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Dionne &amp; Elizabeth Coppock published &#8220;Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature&#8221; in the first-ever volume of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning! Read it here: Cite as: Dionne, Danielle and Elizabeth Coppock (2021). Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature. In Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz, and Anna Papafragou (eds.), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}