Benjamin Spector

Language and Linguistics · 2007–2014

A researcher in the Science corpus: 3 papers; trusts 13 researchers and is trusted by 4 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Language and Linguistics — 19 citations into it; #1,046 of 3,093 by trust here, #1,611 by citations
• Artificial Intelligence — 13 citations into it
• Philosophy — 10 citations into it; #298 of 1,040 by trust here, #479 by citations
• Computational Theory and Mathematics — 6 citations into it

Whom Benjamin Spector trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Danny Fox
2. Uli Sauerland
3. Gennaro Chierchia
4. Robert van Rooij
5. Rick Nouwen
6. Irene Heim
7. Christopher Kennedy
8. Stephen C. Levinson
9. Anna Szabolcsi
10. Jon Gajewski

Who trusts Benjamin Spector overall

1. Roni Katzir
2. Emmanuel Chemla
3. Giorgio Magri
4. Robert van Rooij
5. Raj Singh

Papers from Benjamin Spector's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Benjamin Spector trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Generalized quantifiers and natural language
2. Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences
3. Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures
4. Logic and Conversation
5. Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface. (Cognition)
6. A natural history of negation
7. Indefinites and the type of sets
8. Exhaustive Interpretation of Complex Sentences (Journal of Logic, Language and Information)
9. Presumptive Meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature
10. Broaden Your Views: Implicatures of Domain Widening and the Logicality of Language (Linguistic Inquiry)

Their papers

• Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity (2014) — 97 citations
• Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon (2012) — 234 citations
• 10: Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning (2007) — 108 citations