Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics

by Henk Zeevat (Editor)

Preface by Henk Zeevat & Hans-Christian Schmitz.- 1. Perspectives on Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics by Henk Zeevat.- 2. Causal Bayesian Networks, Signalling Games and Implicature of `More than n' by Anton Benz.- 3. Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Logic for Better Questions and Answers by Satoru Suzuki.- 4. Conditionals, Conditional Probabilities, and Conditionalization by Stefan Kaufmann.- 5. On the Probabilistic Notion of Models and Metalanguages by Christian Wurm.- 6. Shannon vs. Brain Potentials and the Syntax-Semantics Distinction by Mathias Winther Madsen.- 7. Orthogonality and Presuppositions. A Bayesian Perspective by Jacques Jayez.- 8. Layered Meanings and Bayesian The Case of Exclusives by Grégoire Winterstein.- 9. Variations on a Bayesian Comparing Bayesian Models of Referential Reasoning by Ciyang Qing and Michael Franke.- 10. Towards a Probabilistic Semantics for Vague Adjectives by Peter Sutton.

Genres: Linguistics

260 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2015