Licensing sentence-internal readings in English

Wed 29 February 2012 by Adrian Brasoveanu

As a follow-up to our intro to ordinal probit regression, the Feb. 28 class discussed an experiment investigating the semantics of sentence-internal readings in English (joint research by Jakub Dotlacil and Adrian Brasoveanu). The paper reporting the results of the acceptability-judgment experiment and its consequences for the semantics of sentence-internal readings is available here. The R and JAGS scripts used to run the fairly structured ordinal probit mixed-effects “anovas” needed to analyze the data are available upon request (please email the authors).