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Contrafactives and Learnability: An Experiment with Propositional Constants

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Publication date2023-10-23
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ISSN03029743, 16113349, 18612075, 18612083
Abstract
Holton has drawn attention to a new semantic universal, according to which no natural language has contrafactive attitude verbs. Because factives are universal across natural languages, Holton’s universal is part of a major asymmetry between factive and contrafactive attitude verbs. We previously proposed that this asymmetry arises partly because the meaning of contrafactives is significantly harder to learn than that of factives. Here we extend our work by describing an additional computational experiment that further supports our hypothesis.
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Strohmaier D. J. (. J., Wimmer S. Contrafactives and Learnability: An Experiment with Propositional Constants // Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2023. pp. 67-82.
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Strohmaier D. J. (. J., Wimmer S. Contrafactives and Learnability: An Experiment with Propositional Constants // Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2023. pp. 67-82.
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TY - GENERIC
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-43977-3_5
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43977-3_5
TI - Contrafactives and Learnability: An Experiment with Propositional Constants
T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
AU - Strohmaier, David J. (David Jon)
AU - Wimmer, Simon
PY - 2023
DA - 2023/10/23
PB - Springer Nature
SP - 67-82
SN - 0302-9743
SN - 1611-3349
SN - 1861-2075
SN - 1861-2083
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@incollection{2023_Strohmaier,
author = {David J. (David Jon) Strohmaier and Simon Wimmer},
title = {Contrafactives and Learnability: An Experiment with Propositional Constants},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
year = {2023},
pages = {67--82},
month = {oct}
}