Publications

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.

Weiss, A., Chambon, V., Drugowitsch, J. & Wyart, V. (2021). Interacting with volatile environments stabilizes hidden-state inference and its brain signatures. Nature Communications, 12, 2228. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22396-6

van der Veer, A. , Longo, M. , Alsmith, A., Wong, H. & Mohler, B. (2019). Self and body part localization in virtual reality: Comparing a headset and a large-screen immersive display. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6, 33. doi:10.3389/frobt.2019.00033

van der Veer, A. , Alsmith, A., Longo, M. , Wong, H. , Diers, D. , Bues, M. , Giron, A. & Mohler, B. (2019). The influence of the viewpoint in a self-avatar on body part and self-localization. In ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019, 1-11. doi:10.1145/3343036.3343124

Tieu, L., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2019). Linguistic inferences without words. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 116(20), 9796-9801. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821018116

Tieu, L., Pasternak , R., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2017). Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks. Glossa, 2, 102. doi:10.5334/gjgl.334

Tieu, L., Pasternak , R., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2018). Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics , 3(1), 109. doi:10.5334/gjgl.580

Strickland, B. & De Cruz , H. (2021). Replicability in Cognitive Science. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 1-7. doi:10.1007/s13164-021-00531-y

Strickland, B. & Chemla, E. (2018). Cross-linguistic regularities and learner biases reflect "core" mechanics. PloS one, 13(1), e0184132. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184132

Strickland, B., Geraci, C., Chemla, E., Schlenker, P., Kelepir, M. & Pfau, R. (2015). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 5968-73. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423080112

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

Strickland, B., Fisher, M., Keil, F. & Knobe, J. (2014). Syntax and intentionality: an automatic link between language and theory-of-mind. Cognition, 133(1), 249-61. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.05.021

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

Strickland, B. (2016). Language Reflects “Core” Cognition: A New Theory About the Origin of CrossLinguistic Regularities. Cognitive Science, 40 (6), 70-101. doi:10.1111/cogs.12332

Strickland, B., Aristodemo, V., Kuhn, J. & Geraci, C. (2017). The categorical role of structurally iconic signs. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e72. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15003076

Steinert-Threlkeld, S., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2021). Referential and general calls in primate semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy , 44, 1317-1342. doi:10.1007/s10988-021-09322-1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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