Papers

Submitted

1. 1. Spector, Benjamin (2024). Trivalence and Transparency : a non-dynamic approach to anaphora.
  2. Chatain, Keny, Spector, Benjamin & Nina Gregorio (2024). Existential and universal readings of pronouns across binary connectives: an experimental investigation.

Journal Articles

1. 1. Cremers, Alexandre, Wilcox, Ethan & Benjamin Spector (2023). Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs. Cognitive Science, 47: e13286. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13286
  2. Egré, Paul, Spector, Benjamin, Mortier, Adèle et Steven Verheyen (2023). On the Optimality of Vagueness: "Around", "Between", and the Gricean Maxims, Linguistics and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-022-09379-6
  3. Enguehard, Emile & Benjamin Spector (2021). Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages - A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle, Semantics and Pragmatics 14(5). https://semprag.org/index.php/sp/article/view/sp.14.5
  4. Kriz, Manuel, et Benjamin Spector (2020). Interpreting Plural Predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality, Linguistics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-020-09311-w.
  5. Dieuleveut, A., Chemla, E., & Spector, B. (2019). Distinctions between primary and secondary scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 150-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.008
  6. Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019). Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast. Cognition, 182, 171-176. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.009. Link to pdf
  7. Spector, Benjamin. (2019). An argument for the trivalent approach to presupposition projection. Snippets 37 (Special Issue in Honour of Uli Saureland). Link
  8. Fox, Danny & Benjamin Spector (2018). Economy and Embedded Exhaustification. Natural Language Semantics 10.1007/s11050-017-9139-6. Link to preprint
  9. Spector, Benjamin & Yasutada Sudo (2017). Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustivity: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact. Linguistics and Philosophy 40, 473–517. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10988-017-9208-9
  10. Chemla, Emmanuel, Egré, Paul & Benjamin Spector (2017). Characterizing logical consequence in many-valued logic, Journal of Logic and Computation 27, 2193–2226. https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/27/7/2193/3067506, Link to preprint.
  11. Maldonado, Mora, Spector, Benjamin & Emmanuel Chemla (2017). Priming methods in semantics and pragmatics”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40. 10.1017/s0140525x17000516. Link to preprint
  12. Maldonado, Mora, Chemla Emmanuel & Benjamin Spector (2017). Priming plural ambiguities, Journal of Memory and Language 95, 89–101 (2017) doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.02.002. Link to preprint
  13. Ruytenbeek, Nicolas, Verheyen, Steven & Benjamin Spector (2017). Asymmetric inference towards the antonym: experiments into the polarity and morphology of negated adjectives, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2, 92 , https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/4954/
  14. Buccola, Brian & Benjamin Spector (2016). Modified numerals and maximality, Linguistics and Philosophy 39, 151–199 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9187-2 - View-only final published version: http://rdcu.be/npul.
  15. Spector, Benjamin (2016). Comparing Exhaustivity Operators. Semantics and Pragmatics, https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.9.11
  16. Spector, Benjamin (2015). Multivalent Semantics for Vagueness and Presupposition. Topoï 35, 45–55, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-014-9292-1, Link to pdf
  17. Spector, Benjamin et Paul Egré (2015). A uniform semantics for embedded interrogatives : an answer, not necessarily the answer. Synthese 192(6), 1729–1784, Link to pdf
  18. Spector, Benjamin (2014). Global Positive Polarity Items and Obligatory Exhaustivity. Semantics and Pragmatics. 7:11, p. 1-61, https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.7.11
  19. Marty, Paul, Chemla, Emmanuel & Spector Benjamin (2014). Phantom readings: the case of modified numerals. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2014.931592, Link to preprint
  20. Marty, Paul, Chemla, Emmanuel & Spector, Benjamin (2013). Interpreting numerals and scalar items under memory load. Lingua. 133: 152-163, Link to pdf
  21. Spector, Benjamin (2013). Bare numerals and scalar implicatures. Language and Linguistics Compass. 7(5) : 273-294. Link to preprint
  22. Spector, Benjamin (2012). Being simultaneously an NPI and a PPI: a bipolar item in French. Snippets 25: 21-22. https://www.ledonline.it/snippets/allegati/snippets25008.pdf
  23. Chemla Emmanuel et Benjamin Spector (2011). Experimental evidence for embedded scalar implicatures. Journal of Semantics 28 (3): 359-400, https://academic.oup.com/jos/article/28/3/359/1662118, Link to preprint
  24. Abrusan, Marta et Benjamin Spector (2011). A semantics for degree questions based on intervals: negative islands and their obviation. Journal of Semantics 28: 107 – 147, https://academic.oup.com/jos/article/28/1/107/1642667, Link to preprint
  25. Spector, Benjamin (2008). An unnoticed reading for wh-questions: elided quantified answers and weak islands. Linguistic Inquiry 39(4) : 677-686, http://cognet.mit.edu/journal/10.1162/ling.2008.39.4.677, Link to preprint
  26. Spector, Benjamin (2004). Indefinites in subject position are positive polarity items. Snippets 9, 2004, https://www.ledonline.it/snippets/allegati/snippets9005.pdf

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. 1. Wilcox Ethan et Benjamin Spector, Benjamin. (2019). The Role of Prior Beliefs in The Rational Speech Act Model of Pragmatics: Exhaustivity as a Case Study. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3099-3015). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03877465v1/document
  2. Linzen, Tal, Dupoux, Emmanuel & Benjamin Spector (2016). Quantificational features in distributional word representations, Proceedings of the 5th joint conference on lexical and computational semantics, https://aclanthology.org/S16-2001/

Conference proceedings (abstract based selection)

1. 1. Spector, Benjamin. (2023). It’s not about 'about'–comparatives, negation and intervals. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. Vol. 27. 2023. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1090
  2. Spector, Benjamin. (2017) The pragmatics of plural predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality within the Rational Speech Act Model. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium: 435-444, https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003826
  3. Spector, Benjamin et Yasutada Sudo (2015). Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustivity. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19, ed. Eva Csipak & Hedde Zeijlstra, https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/253
  4. Mary, Clemens et Benjamin Spector (2010). Not too strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2009, https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/474
  5. Chemla, Emmanuel et Benjamin Spector (2010). Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures. In Maria Aloni et al. (eds), Logic, Language and Meaning. 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6042 : 53-62, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_6.pdf
  6. Abrusán, Márta et Benjamin Spector (2008). An interval-based semantics for degree questions: negative islands and their obviation. In Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/27/paper1812.pdf
  7. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Modalized Questions and Exhaustivity. In Proc. of SALT 17,

http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/2962/2702

1. 1. Matushansky, Ora et Benjamin Spector (2006). Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. In E. Maier, C. Bary & J. Huitink (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2005.v9i0.731
  2. Spector, Benjamin (2004). Distributivity & specific indefinites. In S. Blaho et al (ed.), Proc. of CONSOLE XII, Link to pdf
  3. Spector, Benjamin (2004). Pseudo Weak Crossover in French relative clauses & global economy. In Actes des Journées d’Etudes Linguistiques 2004, Link to pdf
  4. Spector, Benjamin (2003). Plural indefinite DPs as PLURAL-polarity items. In Romance Languages & Linguistic Theory 2001 [Proceedings of Going Romance 2001], ed. Josep Queer et al., John Benjamins, Link to pdf

Book Chapters

1. 1. Spector, B., (2020), Modified Numerals. in the Wiley Companion to Semantics, ed. Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, Thomas Ede Zimmermann, Link to preprint
  2. Godard, Danièle et Benjamin Spector (2021). Chapitre ‘Polarité’, Grande Grammaire du Français (dirigée par A. Abeillé et A. Delaveau et D. Godard), Actes Sud.
  3. Spector B. (2018). ‘Le langage’. Chapitre de l’ouvrage La Cognition. Du neurone à la société. Ed. Thérèse Collins, Daniel Andler et Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Folio-Essais.
  4. Ruys, Eddy G. & Benjamin Spector (2017). Unexpected Wide Scope Phenomena. The Companion to Syntax, ed. Everaert, Martin and Henk C. Van Riemsdijk, Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom089
  5. Spector, Benjamin (2014). Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge (comments on Magri 2011). Pragmatics, Semantics, and the Case of Scalar Implicatures. Ed. Salvatore Pistoia Reda, Palgrave. Link to preprint
  6. Chierchia, Gennaro, Fox, Danny et Benjamin Spector (2012). Scalar Implicature as a Grammatical Phenomenon. In An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning Semantics, vol 3 eds. P. Portner, C. Maienborn et K. von Heusinger, Mouton de Gruyter. Link to paper
  7. Chierchia, Gennaro, Fox, Danny et Benjamin Spector (2009). Hurford’s constraint and the theory of scalar implicatures. In Presuppositions and Implicatures, ed. Paul Egré & Giorgio Magri, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
  8. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Aspects of the pragmatics of plural morphology: on higher-order implicatures. In U. Sauerland & P. Stateva (ed.), Presuppositions and Implicatures in Compositional Semantics, Palgrave-Macmillan. Link to preprint
  9. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Scalar implicatures: exhaustivity & Gricean reasoning. In M. Aloni & P. Dekker (ed.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Issues in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 17, Elsevier. Link to paper

Other

1. 1. Spector, Benjamin (2013). Maxims of Conversation. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0129.xml.
  2. Spector, Benjamin (2005). Linguistique générative et cognitivisme : bref aperçu. In Labyrinthe, volume 20.
  3. Spector, Benjamin (2003). Grammaire et logique. In Labyrinthe, volume 14.
  4. Spector, Benjamin (1999). La société. GF Flammarion – Collection of classical political and social philosophical texts, with a general introduction and comments on each text.