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Danny Fox
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 45
Citations - 4709
Danny Fox is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Scalar implicature & Grammar. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 41 publications receiving 4378 citations. Previous affiliations of Danny Fox include Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Harvard University.
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Extraposition and Scope: A case for overt QR*
Danny Fox,Jon Nissenbaum +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that “covert” operations like Quantifier Raising (QR) can precede “overt’ operations and there are overt operations that must take the output of QR as their input.
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The Question–Answer Requirement for scope assignment
TL;DR: This paper propose a new factor at play in Truth Value Judgment tasks: the Question-Answer Requirement (QAR), which states that children (and adults) must interpret the target sentence that they evaluate as an answer to a question that is made salient by the discourse.
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Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures
TL;DR: The authors argued that the situation with Scalar Implicatures is different and pointed out that the ignorance inferences normally drawn when disjunctive sentences are uttered are cancelled when it is presupposed that speakers are not going to provide all of the relevant information that they have available (e.g., in the context of a treasure hunt).