expectation-based processing

An expectation-based account of logical metonymy interpretation
Logical metonymies (e.g. the student began the book) have often been treated as a case of type-clash (Pustejovsky 1995): an …
Alessandra Zarcone
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When coercing means fitting: distributional modeling of psycholinguistic datasets
Alessandra Zarcone
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Fitting, not clashing! A distributional semantic model of logical metonymy
Logical metonymy interpretation (e.g. begin the book → writing) has received wide attention in linguistics. Experimental results have …
Alessandra Zarcone, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó, Jason Utt
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The curious case of metonymic verbs: A distributional characterization
Logical metonymy combines an event-selecting verb with an entity-denoting noun (e.g., The writer began the novel), triggering a covert …
Jason Utt, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó, Alessandra Zarcone
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Logical Metonymy from Type Clash to Thematic Fit
Logical metonymy (The author began the book) has often been explained in terms of a type-clash between an eventsubcategorizing …
Alessandra Zarcone, Jason Utt, Alessandro Lenci
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Inferring Covert Events in Logical Metonymies: a Probe Recognition Experiment
It has been widely acknowledged that the interpretation of logical metonymies involves the interpretation of covert events (begin the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Generalized Event Knowledge in Logical Metonymy Resolution
The interpretation of logical metonymies like begin the book has traditionally been explained by assuming the existence of complex …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó
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