All publications - Benjamin Spector

Cremers, A., Wilcox, E. & Spector, B. (2023). Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs. Cognitive Science, 47(5), e13286. doi:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cogs.13286

Spector, B. (2021). Interpreting plural predication: homogeneity and non-maximality. Linguistics and Philosophy , 44, 1131–1178. doi:10.1007/s10988-020-09311-w

Enguehard, E. & Spector, B. (2021). Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages: A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle. Semantics and Pragmatics, 14(5). doi:10.3765/sp.14.5

Spector, B. (2020). Modified Numerals. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, 1-28. doi:10.1002/9781118788516.sem120

Dieuleveut, A., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019 ). Distinctions between primary and secondary scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 150-171. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.008

Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019). Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast. Cognition, 182, 171-176. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.009

Fox, D. & Spector, B. (2018). Economy and embedded exhaustification. Natural Language Semantics, 26(1), 1-50. doi:10.1007/s11050-017-9139-6

Chemla, E., Spector, B. & Egré, P. (2017). Characterizing Logical Consequence in Many-Valued Logic . Journal of Logic and Computation, 27(7), 2193-2226. doi:10.1093/logcom/exx001

Maldonado, M., Spector, B. & Chemla, E. (2017). Priming methods in semantics and pragmatics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000516

Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2017). Priming plural ambiguities. Journal of Memory and Language, 95, 89-101. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2017.02.002

Ruytenbeek, N., Verheyen, S. & Spector, B. (2017). Asymmetric inference towards the antonym: Experiments into the polarity and morphology of negated adjectives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1), 92. doi:10.5334/gjgl.151

Spector, B. & Sudo, Y. (2017). Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact. Linguistics and Philosophy, 40(5), 473–517. doi:10.1007/s10988-017-9208-9

Buccola, B. & Spector, B. (2016). Modified numerals and maximality. Linguistics and Philosophy, 39(3), 151–199. doi:10.1007/s10988-016-9187-2

Spector, B. (2016). Multivalent Semantics for Vagueness and Presupposition. Topoi, 35(1), 45–55. doi:10.1007/s11245-014-9292-1

Spector, B. (2016). Comparing exhaustivity operators. Semantics and Pragmatics, 9(11). doi:10.3765/sp.9.11

Marty, P., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2015). Phantom readings: the case of modified numerals. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(4), 462-477. doi:10.1080/23273798.2014.931592

Spector, B. & Egré, P. (2015). A Uniform Semantics for Embedded Interrogatives: An Answer, Not Necessarily the Answer. Synthese, 192(6), 1729–1784 . doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0722-4

Spector, B. (2014). Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity. Semantics and Pragmatics, 7. doi:10.3765/sp.7.11

Marty, P., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2013). Interpreting numerals and scalar items under memory load. Lingua, 133, 152 - 163. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2013.03.006

Spector, B. (2013). Bare Numerals and Scalar Implicatures. Linguistics and Language Compass, 7(5), 273-294. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12018

Spector, B. (2012). Being simultaneously an {NPI} and a {PPI}: a bipolar item in {French. Snippets, 25

Abrusan, M. & Spector, B. (2011). A Semantics for Degree Questions Based on Intervals: Negative Islands and Their Obviation. Journal of Semantics, 28(1), 107-147. doi:10.1093/jos/ffq013

Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2011). Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures. Journal of Semantics, 28(3), 359-400. doi:10.1093/jos/ffq023

Spector, B. (2008). An Unnoticed Reading for Wh-Questions: Elided Answers and Weak Islands. Linguistic Inquiry, 39(4), 677-686. doi:10.1162/ling.2008.39.4.677

Spector, B. (2004). Indefinites in subject position are positive polarity items. Snippets, 9, 13–14

Linzen, T., Dupoux, E. & Spector, B. (2016). Quantificational features in distributional word representations. In Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 1 – 1-11. doi:10.18653/v1/S16-2001

Wilcox, E. & Spector, B. (2019). The Role of Prior Beliefs in The Rational Speech Act Model of Pragmatics: Exhaustivity as a Case Study. In CogSci, 3099-3105.

Spector, B. (2017). The pragmatics of plural predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality within the Rational Speech Act Model. In Cremers, Alexandre and Thom van Gessel and Floris Roelofsen (Eds.), In Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, 435–444.

Spector, B. & Sudo, Y. (2015). Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustivity. In Eva Csipak & Hedde Zeijlstra (Eds.), In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19.

Spector, B. (2015). Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification. In Eva Csipak & Hedde Zeijlstra (Eds.), In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19, Gottingen, Germany, 608-620.

Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2010 ). Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures. In Aloni, Maria and Bastiaanse, Harald and de Jager, Tikitu and Schulz, Katrin (Eds.), In Logic, Language and Meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 53–62. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_6

Mayr, C. & Spector, B. (2010). Not too strong! Generalizing the scope economy condition. In Prinzhorn, Martin, Viola Schmitt and Sarah Zobel (Eds.), In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14.

Abrusan, M. & Spector, B. (2008). An Interval-Based Semantics for Degree Questions: Negative Islands and Their Obviation. In Abner, Natasha and Jason Bishop (Eds.), In Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 17-26.

Spector, B. (2007). Modalized Questions and Exhaustivity. , Vol. 17: In Semantics and linguistics theory, Linguistic Society of America, 282. doi:10.3765/salt.v17i0.2962

Matushansky, O. & Spector, B. (2004). Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy. In Maier, Emar and Corien Bary and Janneke Huitink (Eds.), In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, Maier, Emar and Corien Bary and Janneke Huitink, 241–255.

Spector, B. (2004). Distributivity and specific indefinites. In Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente and Mark de Vos (Eds.), In Proceedings of ConSOLE XII, Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente and Mark de Vos.

Spector, B. (2004). Pseudo weak crossover in French relative clauses and global economy. In Olivier Crouzet, Hamida Demirdache, Sophie Wauquier (Eds.), In Actes des Journées d'études linguistiques 2004, Université de Nantes.

Spector, B. (2003). Plural Indefinite {DPs} as Plural-Polarity Items. In Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd (Eds.), In Selected papers from Going Romance, Amsterdam, 8 December 2001, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 295–313. doi:10.1075/cilt.245.18spe

Spector, B. (2018). Le langage. In Thérèse Collins, Daniel Andler, Catherine Tallon-Baudry (Eds.), La cognition. Du neurone à la sociétéGallimard

Ruys, E. & Spector, B. (2017). Unexpected Wide-Scope Phenomena. In Everaert, Martin and Henk C. Van Riemsdijk (Eds.), The Companion to SyntaxWiley. doi:10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom089

Spector, B. (2014). Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge: Comments on Magri (2011) In Pistoia Reda, Salvatore (Eds.), Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures (pp. 146–169).Palgrave Macmillan {UK. doi:10.1057/9781137333285_6

Chierchia, G., Fox , F. & Spector, B. (2012). Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon. In Maienborn, Claudia and Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner (Eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Vol. 3).Walter de Gruyter . doi:10.1515/9783110253382.2297

Chierchia, G., Fox, D. & Spector, B. (2009). Hurford's constraint and the theory of scalar implicatures. Presuppositions and implicatures (Vol. 60, pp. 47–62).MIT Working Papers in Linguistics

Spector, B. (2007). Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures. In Sauerland, Uli and Penka Stateva (Eds.), Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics (pp. 243–281).Palgrave Macmillan {UK. doi:10.1057/9780230210752_9

Spector, B. (2007). Scalar implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean reasoning. In Maria Aloni, Alastair Butler and Paul Dekker (Eds.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics (pp. 225-251).Elsevier. doi:10.1163/9780080470993_011

Spector, B. (2013). Maxims of Conversation. Oxford University Press (OUP). doi:10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0129

Spector, B. (2006). Aspects de la pragmatique des opérateurs logiques.

Spector, B. (2005). Linguistique générative et cognitivisme: bref aperçu. Labyrinthe, 20, 41-52OpenEdition. doi:10.4000/labyrinthe.756

Spector, B. (2003). Grammaire et logique. Labyrinthe, 14, 25–46OpenEdition. doi:10.4000/labyrinthe.595