lexical meaning in context

Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects of Type and Typicality
Complement coercion (begin a book → reading) involves a type clash between an event-selecting verb and an entity-denoting object, …
Alessandra Zarcone, Ken McRae, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó
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Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects of Type and Typicality
Same same but different: Type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Same same but different: Type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion
Identifying actional features through semantic priming: Cross-Romance comparison
This paper reports four semantic priming experiments in Italian and Spanish, whose goal was to verify the psychological reality of two …
Olga Batiukova, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Alessandro Lenci, Alessandra Zarcone
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Event Knowledge and Models of Logical Metonymy Interpretation
During language understanding, people do not only rely on what they read or hear, but they also exploit implicit information. For …
Alessandra Zarcone
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Type and Thematic Fit in Logical Metonymy
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Priming-based study of durativity and resultativity in Spanish and Italian
We report and contrast the results of a series of priming studies in Italian and Spanish, whose main goal was to empirically verify the …
Olga Batiukova, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Alessandro Lenci, Alessandra Zarcone, Irene Ricci
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Logical Metonymy Resolution in a Words-as-Cues Framework: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading and Probe Recognition
Abstract Logical metonymy resolution (begin a book → begin reading a book or begin writing a book) has traditionally been explained …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Logical Metonymy Resolution in a Words-as-Cues Framework: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading and Probe Recognition
Logical metonymy: Disentangling object type and thematic fit
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó
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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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