Publications

Schlenker, P. (2022). What It All Means. The MIT Press

Schlenker, P. (2019). What is Super Semantics? Philosophical perspectives, 32, 365-453. doi:10.1111/phpe.12122

Schlenker, P., Chemla, E. & Zuberbühler, K. (2016). What Do Monkey Calls Mean? Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(12), 894-904. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.10.004

Branchini, C., Cardinaletti, A., Cecchetto, C., Donati, C. & Geraci, C. (2015). WH-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS) , 39–70John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/bct.71.03bra

Strickland, B. & J. Scholl, B. (2015). Visual Perception Involves Event-Type Representations: The Case of Containment Versus Occlusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), 570–580. doi:10.1037/a0037750

Schlenker, P. (2018). Visible Meaning: Sign language and the foundations of semantics. Theoretical Linguistics, 44(3-4), 123-208. doi:10.1515/tl-2018-0012

Aristodemo, V. & Geraci, C. (2017). Visible degrees in Italian Sign Language. Natural Language {&} Linguistic Theory, -(on line). doi:10.1007/s11049-017-9389-5

Geraci, C., Bayley, R., Cardinaletti, A., Cecchetto, C. & Donati, C. (2015). Variation in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The case of wh -signs. Linguistics, 53(1), 125–151. doi:10.1515/ling-2014-0031

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

Schlenker, P. (2021). Triggering Presuppositions. Glossa, 6(1), 35. doi:10.5334/gjgl.1352

Schlenker, P. (2007). Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection. In U. Sauerland and P. Stateva (Eds.), Presuppositions and Implicatures in Compositional Semantics (pp. 214-242).

Safra, L., Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J. & Baumard, N. (2020). Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in painting. Nature Communications, 11, 4728. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18566-7

Schlenker, P., Chemla, E., Arnold, K., Lemasson, A., Ouattara, K., Keenan, S., Stephan, C., Ryder, R. & Zuberbühler, K. (2013). Towards a formal analysis of primate alarm calls. In 23rd Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference.

Collins, T. & Jacquet, P. (2018). TMS over posterior parietal cortex disrupts trans-saccadic visual stability. Brain stimulation, 11(2), 390-399. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2017.11.019

Schlenker, P., Chemla, E., Cäsar, C., Zuberbühler, K. & Ryder, R. (2017). Titi semantics: Context and meaning in Titi monkey call sequences. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 35(1), 271-298. doi:10.1007/s11049-016-9337-9

Berthet, M., Mesbahi, G. , Pajot, A. , Cäsar, C., Neumann, C. & Zuberbühler, K. (2019). Titi monkeys combine alarm calls to create probabilistic meaning. Science Advances, 5(5), eaav3991. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav3991

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.

Kuhn, J., Sheng, H. & Schlenker, P. (2021). Timelines and Temporal Pointing in Chinese Sign Language. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1), 133. doi:10.16995/glossa.5836

Schlenker, P., Aristodemo Santoro, V., Ducasse, L. , Lamberton, J. & Santoro, M. (2016). The Unity of Focus: Evidence from Sign Language. Linguistic Inquiry, 47(2), 363-381. doi:10.1162/LING_a_00215

Cecchetto, C., Checchetto, A., Geraci, C., Santoro, M. & Zucchi, S. (2015). The syntax of predicate ellipsis in Italian Sign Language (LIS) Lingua, 166, 214–235. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.12.011

Mantovan, L. & Geraci, C. (2017). The syntax of nominal modification in Italian Sign Language (LIS) Sign Language and Linguistics, 20(2), 183-220

Schlenker, P. (2016). The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface. In Aloni, Maria and Dekker, Paul (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics (pp. 664-727). doi:10.1017/CBO9781139236157.023

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.

Anvari, A., Maldonado, M. & Soria Ruiz, A. (2019). The Puzzle of Reflexive Belief Construction in Spanish. In Espinal, M. T.; Castroviejo, E.; Leonetti, M.; McNally, L.; and Real-Puigdollers, C. (Eds.), In Proceedings of the 23rd Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, 57–74.

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2023). The Pulfrich solidity illusion: a surprising demonstration of the visual system’s tolerance of solidity violations. Psychon Bull Rev. doi:10.3758/s13423-023-02271-9

Schlenker, P. (2011). The Proviso Problem: A Note. Natural Language Semantics, 19(4), 395–422 . doi:10.1007/s11050-011-9072-z

Schlenker, P. (2014). The Property Paradox in (not so) Plain English. Approaches to Meaning. Composition, Values, and Interpretation (pp. 203-219).

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.

Dezecache, G., Grèzes, J. & Dahl, C. (2017). The nature and distribution of affiliative behaviour during exposure to mild threat. Royal Society open science, 4(8), 170265. doi:10.1098/rsos.170265

Murez, M., Smortchkova, J. & Strickland, B. (2015). The Mental Files Theory of Singular Thought: A Psychological Perspective.