Roman Feiman
Biographic Data
| ID | 7350396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roman Feiman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roman |
| FAMILY NAME | Feiman |
| SIGNATURE | FEIMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3262-0901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
LLMs model how humans induce logically structured rules
When the syntactic bootstrap breaks: Some children think any means no
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Children can use distributional information about where words occur to figure out their meanings. But what happens when two very different words not only have most of their distribution in common, but also compose to form indistinguishable sentential meanings in those common cases? As a negative polarity item (NPI), any is selectively licensed by certain linguistic envi…
Polysemy does not exist, at least not in the relevant sense
Based on the existence of polysemy (e.g., lunch can refer to both food and events), it is argued that central tenets of externalist semantics and Fodorian concept atomism, an externalist theory on which words lack semantic structure, are unsound. We evaluate the premise that these arguments rely on—that polysemous words have separate, finer‐grained senses. We survey the evidence across psychology and linguistics and argue that it shows that polys…
It's not just what we don't know: The mapping problem in the acquisition of negation
The development of reasoning by exclusion in infancy
Counting and the ontogenetic origins of exact equality
Priming reveals similarities and differences between three purported cases of implicature: Some, number and free choice disjunctions
Do Children Interpret ‘or’ Conjunctively?
Preschoolers often struggle to compute scalar implicatures involving disjunction (or), in which they are required to strengthen an utterance by negating stronger alternatives, e.g. to infer that, ‘The girl has an apple or an orange’ likely means she does not have both. However, recent reports surprisingly find that a substantial subset of children interpret disjunction as conjunction, concluding instead that the girl must have both fruits. Accord…
Priming quantifier scope: Reexamining the evidence against scope inversion
In a study of quantifier-scope priming, Chemla and Bott (2015) found evidence suggesting that, while representations of quantifiers’ relative scope can be primed, a scope inversion operation cannot. We identify a confound in their materials. In Experiment 1, we replicate their finding with this confound intact. In Experiment 2, we remove the confound and find that all priming disappears. This confound demonstrates how structural priming paradigms…
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Do Children Interpret ‘or’ Conjunctively?
Preschoolers often struggle to compute scalar implicatures involving disjunction (or), in which they are required to strengthen an utterance by negating stronger alternatives, e.g. to infer that, ‘The girl has an apple or an orange’ likely means she does not have both. However, recent reports surprisingly find that a substantial subset of children interpret disjunction as conjunction, concluding instead that the girl must have both fruits. Accord…
Priming quantifier scope: Reexamining the evidence against scope inversion
In a study of quantifier-scope priming, Chemla and Bott (2015) found evidence suggesting that, while representations of quantifiers’ relative scope can be primed, a scope inversion operation cannot. We identify a confound in their materials. In Experiment 1, we replicate their finding with this confound intact. In Experiment 2, we remove the confound and find that all priming disappears. This confound demonstrates how structural priming paradigms…
Priming reveals similarities and differences between three purported cases of implicature: Some, number and free choice disjunctions
The development of reasoning by exclusion in infancy
Counting and the ontogenetic origins of exact equality
It's not just what we don't know: The mapping problem in the acquisition of negation
Polysemy does not exist, at least not in the relevant sense
Based on the existence of polysemy (e.g., lunch can refer to both food and events), it is argued that central tenets of externalist semantics and Fodorian concept atomism, an externalist theory on which words lack semantic structure, are unsound. We evaluate the premise that these arguments rely on—that polysemous words have separate, finer‐grained senses. We survey the evidence across psychology and linguistics and argue that it shows that polys…
When the syntactic bootstrap breaks: Some children think any means no
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Children can use distributional information about where words occur to figure out their meanings. But what happens when two very different words not only have most of their distribution in common, but also compose to form indistinguishable sentential meanings in those common cases? As a negative polarity item (NPI), any is selectively licensed by certain linguistic envi…
LLMs model how humans induce logically structured rules
Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Negation (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)