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UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title Typical use of quantifiers: A probabilistic speaker model Author Publication Date Typical use of quantifiers: A probabilistic speaker model
2014
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
unpublished
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Many natural language quantifiers are classically associated with a stringent binary semantics, and similarly categorical pragmatic enrichments. But much experimental data shows that intuitions about appropriateness of use seem to be more fuzzy and more subtle, yet highly regular nonetheless. To account for these gradient typicality judgements, I sketch a new probabilistic model of Gricean speakers that incorporates a gradient notion of utterance alternatives. Focusing on scalar quantifier
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