Mora Maldonado
Biographic Data
| ID | 9190707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mora Maldonado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mora |
| FAMILY NAME | Maldonado |
| SIGNATURE | MALDONADO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The many meanings of an NPI: The view from artificial language learning
Cross-linguistically, Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are often ambiguous, allowing additional, non--polarity sensitive uses. We document several common patterns of ambiguity and show that in each case, there is a systematic logical relation between the two forms. For example, in English and other languages, two interpretations commonly available to NPIs are each other's logical duals. We explore the hypothesis that these systematic ambiguities ar…
Good and Ought in Argumentation: Covid-19 as a Case Study
The present chapter concerns arguments whose conclusions take the form of a prescription such as you ought to do such-and-such , which have driven much public discussion and policy since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We aim to tackle a hitherto under-explored characteristic of many such normative arguments, namely, the relationship between evaluative and deontic propositions, depending on whether they occur as premises or conclusions in…
Plural Marking and d-Linking in Spanish Interrogatives
What is the semantic import of number morphology? This question has been traditionally addressed by focusing on singular and plural noun phrases. The present work brings interrogative phrases into the picture. We analyse Spanish bare interrogative ‘quién’ and its plural counterpart ‘quiénes’. Unlike which-questions in both English and Spanish, the behaviour of quién- and quiénes-interrogatives cannot be easily explained by most accounts of semant…
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…
Person of Interest: Experimental Investigations into the Learnability of Person Systems
Person systems convey the roles entities play in the context of speech (e.g., speaker, addressee). As with other linguistic category systems, not all ways of partitioning the person space are equally likely crosslinguistically. Different theories have been proposed to constrain the set of possible person partitions that humans can represent, explaining their typological distribution. This article introduces an artificial language learning methodo…
Mouse tracking as a window into decision making
Priming plural ambiguities
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Priming plural ambiguities
Mouse tracking as a window into decision making
Plural Marking and d-Linking in Spanish Interrogatives
What is the semantic import of number morphology? This question has been traditionally addressed by focusing on singular and plural noun phrases. The present work brings interrogative phrases into the picture. We analyse Spanish bare interrogative ‘quién’ and its plural counterpart ‘quiénes’. Unlike which-questions in both English and Spanish, the behaviour of quién- and quiénes-interrogatives cannot be easily explained by most accounts of semant…
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…
Person of Interest: Experimental Investigations into the Learnability of Person Systems
Person systems convey the roles entities play in the context of speech (e.g., speaker, addressee). As with other linguistic category systems, not all ways of partitioning the person space are equally likely crosslinguistically. Different theories have been proposed to constrain the set of possible person partitions that humans can represent, explaining their typological distribution. This article introduces an artificial language learning methodo…
Good and Ought in Argumentation: Covid-19 as a Case Study
The present chapter concerns arguments whose conclusions take the form of a prescription such as you ought to do such-and-such , which have driven much public discussion and policy since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We aim to tackle a hitherto under-explored characteristic of many such normative arguments, namely, the relationship between evaluative and deontic propositions, depending on whether they occur as premises or conclusions in…
The many meanings of an NPI: The view from artificial language learning
Cross-linguistically, Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are often ambiguous, allowing additional, non--polarity sensitive uses. We document several common patterns of ambiguity and show that in each case, there is a systematic logical relation between the two forms. For example, in English and other languages, two interpretations commonly available to NPIs are each other's logical duals. We explore the hypothesis that these systematic ambiguities ar…
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Plural (2 works) · Acceleration (1 works) · Ambiguity (1 works)