Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- References -- 2 Cognitively Plausible Theories of Concept Composition -- Abstract -- 1 Background Framework -- 1.1 Content Variability -- 2 Multiple Representational Forms -- 3 Pragmatic Constraint -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Compositionality and Concepts---A Perspective from Formal Semantics and Philosophy of Language -- 1 (Some) Deep Background -- 2 (Some) Features of Compositionality -- 3 (Some) Philosophers of Language -- 4 (Some) Cognitive Psychologists -- 5 (Some) Linguistic Theories -- 5.1 (Some) Externalists -- 5.2 (Some) Emergentists -- 5.3 (Some) Essentialists -- 6 (Some) Objectivists Versus (Some) Subjectivists -- 6.1 Concepts and Privacy -- 6.2 Concepts and Meaning -- 6.3 Specificity and Meaning in Particular Instances of Language Use -- 6.4 Compositionality Cuts both Ways -- 7 (Some) Desiderata for a Two-Tiered Semantic Theory -- 7.1 Objectivist Two-Tiered Theories -- 7.2 Subjectivist Two-Tiered Theories -- 7.3 Two-Tiered Theories with a Nexus -- 8 (Some) Aspects of Current Theories of Mental Concepts that Require Attention -- 8.1 (Some) Messy Details for Conceptual Theories -- 8.2 Concepts, Sentences, and Bradley's Regress -- 8.3 REAL Negation, Conjunction, Conditional, and Disjunction -- 9 (Some) Concluding Remarks -- References -- 4 Compositionality and Concepts -- Abstract -- 1 Concepts and Prototypes -- 1.1 Combining Prototypes -- 1.2 Intensional Composition -- 1.3 Prototypes as Intensions -- 1.4 Context Sensitivity -- 1.5 Typicality and Gradedness -- 1.6 Does Variation in Typicality Really Undermine the Classical Model? -- 1.7 Ingredients of Typicality 1: Ideals -- 1.8 Ingredients of Typicality 2: Frequency and Familiarity -- 1.9 Typicality and Membership -- 1.10 Differentiating Vagueness from Ignorance.

1.11 Concept Intensions as Fundamental -- 1.12 Impossible Objects and Hierarchical Levels -- 1.13 Results -- 2 Conclusions -- References -- 5 Typicality Knowledge and the Interpretation of Adjectives -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overextension and World Knowledge -- 1.2 Further Effects of World Knowledge Involving Color Terms -- 2 Experiments -- 2.1 Pretest: Category Confirmation and Color Shift Judgments Along a Spectrum -- 3 Experiment 1: Forced Choice Between a Focal Color Versus a Nonfocal, Typical Color -- 4 Method -- 4.1 Results -- 5 Experiment 2: Yes-No Categorization Judgment -- 5.1 Method -- 5.2 Results -- 5.3 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Concept Typicality and the Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context and Logical Meaning -- 3 Typicality: Defining Context -- 4 Experimental Investigation -- 4.1 Pretests: Constructing Materials -- 4.2 Experiment 1: Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction Sentences -- 4.3 Experiment 2: Compatibility of Predicate Pairs -- 4.4 Correlation Between Interpretation and Compatibility -- 5 Discussion -- 5.1 Reference Shift of the Plural Subject? -- 5.2 Other Measures of Typicality -- 5.3 Further Areas -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- Critical Typicality: Truth Judgements and Compositionality with Plurals and Other Gradable Concepts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Vagueness and Acceptability Functions -- 3 Distributivity and Reciprocity as Gradable Concepts -- 4 Acceptability Versus Typicality -- 5 Guppy effects with gradable adjectives -- 6 Guppy Effects with Plurals -- 7 The Effect of Critical Typicality on Acceptability -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Complement Coercion as the Processing of Aspectual Verbs: Evidence from Self-paced Reading and fMRI -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction.

1.1 The Complement Coercion Phenomenon -- 1.2 Challenges to the Type-Shifting Hypothesis -- 1.3 The Structured Individual (SI) Analysis -- 2 Pretest: Norming Questionnaire -- 2.1 Method -- 2.1.1 Participants -- 2.1.2 Materials -- 2.1.3 Procedures -- 2.2 Results -- 3 Experiment 1: Self-paced Reading -- 3.1 Method -- 3.1.1 Participants -- 3.1.2 Materials -- 3.1.3 Procedure -- 3.1.4 Data Analysis -- 3.2 Results -- 4 Experiment 2: fMRI -- 4.1 Method -- 4.1.1 Participants -- 4.1.2 Materials -- 4.1.3 Experimental Design -- 4.1.4 Imaging Acquisition -- 4.1.5 fMRI Data Analysis -- 4.2 Results -- 4.2.1 Behavioral Results -- 4.2.2 Imaging Results -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 Conceptual Combination, Property Inclusion, and the Aristotelian-Thomistic View of Concepts -- Abstract -- 1 Overview -- 2 Background -- 3 Current Experiment -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 4.1 The Aristotelian-Thomistic Approach -- 4.2 Applying the A-T View to the Modification Effect -- 5 Conclusion -- Conceptual Versus Referential Affordance in Concept Composition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Two Approaches to Analyzing Modification -- 3 A Dual System for Semantic Composition -- 3.1 Conceptually Versus Referentially Afforded Composition -- 3.2 Empirical Evidence Supporting the Distinction -- 4 Conceptually Afforded Composition with Distributional Semantics -- 5 A Mixed Model for Two Types of Semantic Composition -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- 11 How Does the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe Contribute to Conceptual Combination? Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The LATL as a Central Combinatory Region -- 3 Theories of Conceptual Combination -- 3.1 Schema-Based Models -- 3.2 Relation-Based Models -- 3.3 Summary -- 4 Processing Predictions of Schema and Relation-Based Models -- 4.1 Storage and Retrieval.

4.2 Composition -- 4.2.1 What Is the Combinatory Process? -- 4.2.2 Timing of Composition -- 5 Conclusions and Future Directions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12 Dimension Accessibility as a Predictor of Morphological Gradability -- Abstract -- 1 Adjectives Versus Nouns in Comparison Constructions -- 1.1 The Challenges -- 1.2 Psychological Theories of Similarity-Based Categorization -- 1.3 Logical Operations of Quantification Over Dimensions in Adjective Categorization -- 2 A Pilot Study of Acceptability Judgments -- 2.1 Method -- 2.2 Results -- 3 Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix A: Averages on 25 Participants for the Comparison Conditions with Nouns (Left) and Adjectives (Right) -- Appendix B: Averages on 25 Participants for the 24 Nouns in Baseline and Modified Conditions -- Appendix C: The Full Set of Sentences Together with Their Naturalness Mean and Sd -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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