Logical Metonymy

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
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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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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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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