David Barner

List of John Benjamins publications for which David Barner plays a role.

Articles

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
Barner, David, Lara K. Hochstein, Miriam P. Rubenson and Alan Bale 2018 Chapter 14. Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoningSemantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 326–349 | 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