Publications

Mercier, H., Yesilaltay , S. & Hacquin, A. (2022). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. , 24(6), 1303-1324. doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

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

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

Mercier, H. & Boyer, P. (2021). Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), 259-267. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.004

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

Sidarus, N., Palminteri, S. & Chambon, V. (2018). Trading off the cost of conflict against expected rewards. Plos Computational Biology, 42809. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007326

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.

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

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

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

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The Origin of Pointing: Evidence for the Touch Hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

Trouche, E., Prado, J. , Léone, J. , Epinat-Duclos, J. & Mercier, H. (2020). The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain and Language, 208, 104827. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104827

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

Schlenker, P. (2005). The Lazy Frenchman's Approach to the Subjunctive. In T. Geerts, I. van Ginneken and H. Jacobs (Eds.), In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003 Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ , 269-309.

Checchetto, A., Geraci, C., Cecchetto, C. & Zucchi, S. (2018). The language instinct in extreme circumstances: The transition to tactile Italian Sign Language ( LISt ) by Deafblind signers. Glossa, 3(1)

Fisher, M., Knobe, J., Strickland, B. & Keil, F. (2017). The Influence of Social Interaction on Intuitions of Objectivity and Subjectivity. Cognitive science, 41(4), 1119-1134. doi:10.1111/cogs.12380

Mahr, J. , Mascaro, O., Mercier, H. & Csibra, G. (2021). The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance. Plos One, 16(4), e0249958. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249958

Kuhn, J. (2021). The dynamics of negative concord. Linguist and Philos. doi:10.1007/s10988-020-09318-3

Mercier, H. (2020). The Cultural Evolution of Oaths, Ordeals, and Lie Detectors. The Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(3-4), 159-187. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340080