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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

Learnability and constraints on the semantics of clause-embedding predicates

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Responsive predicates are clause-embedding predicates like English know and guess that can take both declarative and interrogative clausal complements. The meanings of responsive predicates when they take a declarative complement and when they take an interrogative complement are hypothesized to be constrained in systematic ways across languages, suggesting that these constraints represent semantic universals. We report an artificial language learning experiment showing that one of these proposed constraints is indeed reflected in the inferences participants make while learning a novel responsive predicate. Our results add support to a growing body of evidence linking semantic universals to learning.
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hal-03919129 , version 1 (02-01-2023)

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Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson, Wataru Uegaki. Learnability and constraints on the semantics of clause-embedding predicates. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022, Toronto, Canada. ⟨hal-03919129⟩
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