David Barner
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Barner is involved.
Articles
2020 Lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic sources of countability: An experimental exploration of the mass-count distinction Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 159–190 | Chapter
In this chapter, we suggest that the meanings of mass and count nouns result from the interaction of three components of language - lexical roots, syntax, and pragmatic inference. We begin by providing a brief history of early work on the mass-count distinction, and show how the experimental… read more
2018 Chapter 14. Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoning Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 325–349 | Chapter
Children exhibit sophisticated mental state (epistemic) reasoning abilities from an early age, but it remains unclear what role these abilities play in the development of pragmatic inference in language acquisition. Here, we examined the role of epistemic reasoning in scalar implicature.… read more