The question-answer requirement for scope assignment

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 205-237

  Gualmini, Andrea ^a   Hulsey, Sarah ^b,c   Hacquard, Valentine ^d   Fox, Danny ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity resolution; Language acquisition; Negation; Scope ambiguities

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149117723     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-008-9029-z     Document Type: Article

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