Cory Bill

Biographic Data

ID3861976
NAMECory Bill
GIVEN NAMESCory
FAMILY NAMEBill
SIGNATUREBILL C
AFFILIATIONSLeibniz-Centre General Linguistics
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Is DP conjunction always complex? The view from child Georgian and Hungarian

    Open AccessCassandra Bill, Cory Bill et al.ARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2025

    Mitrović & Sauerland (2014, 2016) claim that, across languages, DP-conjunction decomposes into [JP [MuP [DP1 ⟳] MU] [J’ J [MuP [DP2 ⟳] MU]]]. Their account, when combined with the independently motivated assumption that children better comprehend utterances which display a greater degree of 1-to-1 mapping between form and meaning (van Hout 2008, Guasti et al. 2023: a.o.), predicts that sentences where only J or MU are pronounced should be harder …

  • An experimental investigation of implicature and homogeneity approaches to free choice

    Open AccessLyn Tieu, Cassandra Bill et al.ARTICLENatural Language Semantics2024References: 35

  • Children’s Interpretation of Sentences Containing Multiple Scalar Terms

    Open AccessCassandra Bill, Cory Bill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Semantics2022

    Sentences containing the scalar term “some”, such as “The pig carried some of his rocks”, are usually interpreted as conveying the scalar inference that the pig did not carry all of his rocks. Previous research has reported that when interpreting such sentences, children tend to derive fewer of these scalar inferences than adults ( Noveck (2001); Papafragou & Musolino (2003); Guasti et al. (2005), among others). One approach to explaining these r…

  • Testing theories of plural meanings

    Open AccessLyn Tieu, Cassandra Bill et al.ARTICLECognition2020