Publications

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

Schaffer, E., Ostojic, S. & Abbott, L. (2013). A complex-valued firing-rate model that approximates the dynamics of spiking networks. PLoS computational biology, 9(10), e1003301. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003301

Mastrogiuseppe, F. & Ostojic, S. (2019). A geometrical description of global dynamics in trained feedback networks. Neural Computation, 31(6), 1139-1182. doi:10.1162/neco_a_01187

Mascarenhas, S. (2021). A Note on the Cardinalities of Sets of Scalar Alternatives . Journal of Semantics, 38(3), 473–482. doi:10.1093/jos/ffab011

Schlenker, P. (2010). A Phonological Condition that Targets Discontinuous Syntactic Units: ma/mon suppletion in French. Snippets(22), 11-13

Schlenker, P. (2002). A Plea for Monsters . Linguistics and Philosophy, 26(1), 29–120. doi:10.1023/A:1022225203544

Barbosa, J., Stein, H., Zorowitz, S. , Niv, Y. , Summerfield, C., Soto-Faraco, S. & Hyafil, A. (2022). A practical guide for studying human behavior in the lab. Behavior Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-022-01793-9

Helming, K., Strickland, B. & Jacob, P. (2016). A pragmatic approach to the puzzle about early belief ascription. Mind & Language, 31(4), 438-469

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

Schlenker, P. & Mathur G, G. (2013). A Strong Crossover Effect in ASL. Snippets. doi:10.7358/snip-2013-027-schl

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

Saez, A., Rigotti, M., Ostojic, S., Fusi, S. & Salzman, C. (2015). Abstract Context Representations in Primate Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron, 87(4), 869-81. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.07.024

Mantovan, L., Duarte, K., Geraci, C. & Cardinaletti, A. (2016). Access to Knowledge The Issue of Deaf Students and More. Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale, 50, 149–164. doi:10.14277/2499-1562/AnnOc-50-16-7

Barbosa, J., Babushkin, V. , Temudo, A. , Sreenivasan, K. & Compte, A. (2021). Across-Area Synchronization Supports Feature Integration in a Biophysical Network Model of Working Memory. Front. Neural Circuits. doi:10.3389/fncir.2021.716965

Dezecache, G., Mercier, H. & Scott-Philips Thomas, C. (2013). An evolutionary approach to emotional communication. Journal of Pragmatics, 59, 221-233. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.06.007

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. (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

Narbona Sabaté, L. , Mesbahi, G. , Dezecache, G., Cäsar, C., Zuberbühler, K. & Berthet, M. (2022). Animal linguistics in the making: the Urgency Principle and titi monkeys’ alarm system. Ethology Ecology & Evolution , . doi:10.1080/03949370.2021.2015452

Schlenker, P. (2009). Anselm’s Argument and Berry’s Paradox. Noûs, 43(2), 214-223. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2009.00703.x

Schlenker, P. (2007). Anti-Dynamics (Presupposition Projection Without Dynamic Semantics) Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 16(3), 325-356. doi:10.1007/s10849-006-9034-x

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

V Kuchibhotla, K. , Hindmarsh Sten, T., C. Papadoyannis, E. , Elnozahy, S. , Fogelson, K. , Chillale, R. , Boubenec, Y., C. Holland, P. , Ostojic, S. & C. Froemke, R. (2020). Author Correction: Dissociating task acquisition from expression during learning reveals latent knowledge. Nat Commun, 11(3176). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17023-9

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

Schlenker, P. (2008). Be Articulate: A Pragmatic Theory of Presupposition Projection . Theoretical Linguistics, 34(3), 157–212. doi:10.1515/THLI.2008.013

Terrone, E. (2017). Be Like This. Norms, Examples, Documents and Indexicals from a Neo-Aristotelian Perspective. Law and Literature, 1-15. doi:10.1080/1535685X.2017.1379194

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

Schlenker, P., Coye, C. , Steinert{-}threlkeld, S., Klinedinst, N. & Chemla, E. (2022). Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics. Cognitive Science, 46(12), e13220 . doi:10.1111/cogs.13220

Strickland, B. & Mercier, H. (2014). Bias neglect: a blind spot in the evaluation of scientific results. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 67(3), 570-80. doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.821510

Terrone, E. (2017). Blessed Are the Forgetful: Utilitarianism and Remarriage in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Film and Philosophy, 21, 74-89

Kuhn, J., Geraci, C., Schlenker, P. & Strickland, B. (2021). Boundaries in Space and Time: Iconic Biases Across Modalities . Cognition, 210, 104596. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104596