This study examines the problem of belief revision, defined as deciding which of several initially accepted sentences to disbelieve, when new information presents a logical inconsistency with the initial set. In the first three experiments , the initial sentence set included a conditional sentence, a non-conditional (ground) sentence, and an inferred conclusion drawn from the first two. The new...

This paper presents the results of a Sentence Reproduction Task (SRT) investigating conditional sentences in German Sign Language (DGS). We found that participants mark DGS by systematically using different non-manual markers on antecedent and consequent. In addition, these were frequently used combination with one or two manual signs. However, omitted test sentences, i.e., input stimuli asked ...

2 Premise Interpretation in Conditional Reasoning Conditional sentences are pervasive in human communication. Many arguments contain conditional premises or a conditional conclusion. The expression conditional reasoning could appropriately be applied to such arguments. However, there is a tradition in psychological research, which will be followed here, to restrict the use of this expression to...

Motivated by problems that arise in computing degrees of belief, we consider the problem of computing asymptotic conditional probabilities for first-order sentences. Given first-order sentences φ and θ, we consider the structures with domain {1, . . . , N} that satisfy θ, and compute the fraction of them in which φ is true. We then consider what happens to this fraction as N gets large. This ex...

This paper describes a two-phase Turkish dependency parsing which separates dependency and labeling into two similar to (McDonald et al., 2006b). First, in order to solve the long distance dependency attachment problem, the sentences are split into constituents and the dependencies are estimated on shorter sentences. Later, for better estimation of labels, Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are u...

Conventional implicature is conventional in the sense that it is a function of linguistic meaning and context in the way that truth-conditional content is. Nevertheless, although conventional in this sense it makes no contribution to truth-conditions. Rather it introduces a pragmatic presupposition. The delivery of content in implicature is in the mode of the unsaid. How exactly we should under...

This paper investigates the processing of conditional sentences and sentences with ‘since’ in two respects. Firstly, we investigate the clausal implicature originating from the scale . Secondly, we investigate how modals can affect the interpretation of these sentences. A reading time experiment is reported which involved these two factors. It appears that ‘since’ is pr...

In this paper, we explain why the antecedent of a biscuit conditional is relevant to its consequent by extending Douven?s evidential support theory conditionals making use utilities. By extension, can also gives rise inference that consequence (most likely) true. Finally, account for intuition (indicative) sentences are false when and allow counterfactual biscuits.

links the clauses “you need anything” and “I’m Jill” in a conditional construction, but semantically we may naturally perceive the propositions expressed by these clauses as conditionally unrelated; the name of the woman does not depend on whether the addressee needs anything or not. To humorously misapprehend such conditional sentences, as Martin does, is to pretend to see a conditional relati...