Pascal Amsili
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1642844 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pascal Amsili |
| PRENOMES | Pascal |
| SOBRENOME | Amsili |
| ASSINATURA | AMSILI P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5901-5050 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The polarity effect in future temporal reference
This squib brings attention to a longstanding puzzle regarding the mechanism driving the strong polarity effect on future temporal reference in French. Our study presents new findings from two corpora of Parisian French, where negative contexts with n-words significantly favour the usage of synthetic future compared to contexts with the negative marker pas , in contrast to Laurentian French, where synthetic future is predominantly used in all neg…
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord
This paper provides new evidence that syntactic principles that are proposed to explain the (un)grammaticality of a sentence can also hold in sociolinguistic variation. In particular, we argue that two puzzling frequency patterns involving negation in French—the proximity effect on negative concord and the polarity effect on future temporal reference—are deeply related and are both derived from the sensitivity of syntactic agreement to “soft” loc…
The Acquisition of Noun and Verb Categories by Bootstrapping From a Few Known Words
While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in speech, the learning mechanism allowing them to do this is still largely unclear. In this article, we use computational modeling to assess the plausibility of a context-based learning mechanism for the acquisition of nouns and verbs. We hypothesize that infants can assign basic semantic features, such as “is-an-object” and/or “is-an-action,” to the very first…
New ways of analyzing complementizer drop in Montréal French
In this paper, we return to the well-studied yet still puzzling phenomenon of complementizer omission in a large spoken corpus of Quebec French, with the help of modern computational methods for annotation and mixed effects logistic regression models. Supporting previous work, our study reveals that complementizer que omission is conditioned by social factors and grammatical factors; however, we also find that que omission is conditioned by cogni…
Missing Antecedents Found
Numerous papers have used so-called `missing antecedent phenomena' as a criterion for distinguishing deep and surface anaphora. Specifically, only the latter are claimed to licence pronouns with missing antecedents. These papers also argue that missing antecedent phenomena provide evidence that surface anaphora involve unpronounced syntactic structure in the ellipsis site. The present paper suggests that the acceptability judgments on which the a…
Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition
How does language acquisition start? Having access to words and their meaning should help infants to learn about syntax, but learning about word meaning would be facilitated if infants had access to syntactic structure ( Gleitman 1990 ). Phrasal prosody and function words may bootstrap lexical and syntactic acquisition. Infants have access to phonological phrases, and they use these to constrain the syntactic analysis of utterances by 18 months. …
Optionality in the Use of Too
Este artigo lida com a propriedade da obrigatoriedade que é frequentemente descrita como uma característica da classe das partículas aditivas (e.g., o advérbio too (“também”)). Em resumo, essas partículas são chamadas de obrigatórias porque omiti-las em um discurso criaria ou um resultado infeliz ou a derivação de inferências indesejadas. Uma linha comum de análise trata essa propriedade como booleana. O consenso geral costuma ser que se uma part…
Les déclencheurs de présupposition additifs
Ce travail examine les propriétés des déclencheurs de présupposition additifs. On vérifie tout d'abord avec les tests classiques qu'il s'agit bien de déclencheurs de présupposition de plein droit. Puis, on met en lumière des propriétés plus originales : les contraintes pesant sur la présence d'un associé, la difficulté à accommoder complètement la présupposition, etc. On s'intéresse ensuite au « caractère obligatoire » de aussi (le fait que l'on …
Interpréter les pronoms phrastiques
1. Lorsque les pronoms ne sont pas « pro-nominaux » Les pronoms qui nous intéressent principalement ici sont ceux qui renvoient typiquement à un matériau phrastique ou propositionnel. A cet égard nous les nommerons pronoms phrastiques. Voici deux exemples. [1] [Marie parle japonais]1. Mais Jean ne le1 sait pas. [2] Jean a promis [de venir à la fête]1 ; cela1 fera plaisir à Marie. Cette classe est tout à fait courante, mais elle ne se laisse pas d…
Les déclencheurs de présupposition additifs
Ce travail examine les propriétés des déclencheurs de présupposition additifs. On vérifie tout d'abord avec les tests classiques qu'il s'agit bien de déclencheurs de présupposition de plein droit. Puis, on met en lumière des propriétés plus originales : les contraintes pesant sur la présence d'un associé, la difficulté à accommoder complètement la présupposition, etc. On s'intéresse ensuite au « caractère obligatoire » de aussi (le fait que l'on …
Interpréter les pronoms phrastiques
1. Lorsque les pronoms ne sont pas « pro-nominaux » Les pronoms qui nous intéressent principalement ici sont ceux qui renvoient typiquement à un matériau phrastique ou propositionnel. A cet égard nous les nommerons pronoms phrastiques. Voici deux exemples. [1] [Marie parle japonais]1. Mais Jean ne le1 sait pas. [2] Jean a promis [de venir à la fête]1 ; cela1 fera plaisir à Marie. Cette classe est tout à fait courante, mais elle ne se laisse pas d…
Les déclencheurs de présupposition additifs
Ce travail examine les propriétés des déclencheurs de présupposition additifs. On vérifie tout d'abord avec les tests classiques qu'il s'agit bien de déclencheurs de présupposition de plein droit. Puis, on met en lumière des propriétés plus originales : les contraintes pesant sur la présence d'un associé, la difficulté à accommoder complètement la présupposition, etc. On s'intéresse ensuite au « caractère obligatoire » de aussi (le fait que l'on …
Optionality in the Use of Too
Este artigo lida com a propriedade da obrigatoriedade que é frequentemente descrita como uma característica da classe das partículas aditivas (e.g., o advérbio too (“também”)). Em resumo, essas partículas são chamadas de obrigatórias porque omiti-las em um discurso criaria ou um resultado infeliz ou a derivação de inferências indesejadas. Uma linha comum de análise trata essa propriedade como booleana. O consenso geral costuma ser que se uma part…
Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition
How does language acquisition start? Having access to words and their meaning should help infants to learn about syntax, but learning about word meaning would be facilitated if infants had access to syntactic structure ( Gleitman 1990 ). Phrasal prosody and function words may bootstrap lexical and syntactic acquisition. Infants have access to phonological phrases, and they use these to constrain the syntactic analysis of utterances by 18 months. …
Missing Antecedents Found
Numerous papers have used so-called `missing antecedent phenomena' as a criterion for distinguishing deep and surface anaphora. Specifically, only the latter are claimed to licence pronouns with missing antecedents. These papers also argue that missing antecedent phenomena provide evidence that surface anaphora involve unpronounced syntactic structure in the ellipsis site. The present paper suggests that the acceptability judgments on which the a…
The Acquisition of Noun and Verb Categories by Bootstrapping From a Few Known Words
While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in speech, the learning mechanism allowing them to do this is still largely unclear. In this article, we use computational modeling to assess the plausibility of a context-based learning mechanism for the acquisition of nouns and verbs. We hypothesize that infants can assign basic semantic features, such as “is-an-object” and/or “is-an-action,” to the very first…
New ways of analyzing complementizer drop in Montréal French
In this paper, we return to the well-studied yet still puzzling phenomenon of complementizer omission in a large spoken corpus of Quebec French, with the help of modern computational methods for annotation and mixed effects logistic regression models. Supporting previous work, our study reveals that complementizer que omission is conditioned by social factors and grammatical factors; however, we also find that que omission is conditioned by cogni…
The polarity effect in future temporal reference
This squib brings attention to a longstanding puzzle regarding the mechanism driving the strong polarity effect on future temporal reference in French. Our study presents new findings from two corpora of Parisian French, where negative contexts with n-words significantly favour the usage of synthetic future compared to contexts with the negative marker pas , in contrast to Laurentian French, where synthetic future is predominantly used in all neg…
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord
This paper provides new evidence that syntactic principles that are proposed to explain the (un)grammaticality of a sentence can also hold in sociolinguistic variation. In particular, we argue that two puzzling frequency patterns involving negation in French—the proximity effect on negative concord and the polarity effect on future temporal reference—are deeply related and are both derived from the sensitivity of syntactic agreement to “soft” loc…
Computer Science (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Linguistics (5 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 obras) · Humanities (3 obras) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (3 obras) · Mathematics (3 obras) · Natural language processing (3 obras)