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B. Spector

h-index: 24
Works: 74
Citations: 2,781

Most-cited papers

The Grammatical View of Scalar Implicatures and the Relationship between Semantics and Pragmatics
Gennaro Chierchia, D. Fox, B. Spector
2008386 citations
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Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
Gennaro Chierchia, D. Fox, B. Spector
2012240 citations
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Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures
B. Spector
2007208 citations
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Accelerating LLM Inference with Staged Speculative Decoding
B. Spector, Christopher Ré
2023arXiv.org194 citations Open access
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Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning
B. Spector
2004181 citations
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Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures
E. Chemla, B. Spector
2011Journal of Semantics150 citations Open access
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A uniform semantics for embedded interrogatives: an answer, not necessarily the answer
B. Spector, P. Égré
2015Synthese109 citations Open access
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10: Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning
B. Spector
2007108 citations Open access
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Economy and embedded exhaustification
D. Fox, B. Spector
2018106 citations Open access
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Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity
B. Spector
2014100 citations Open access
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HURFORD ’ S CONSTRAINT AND THE THEORY OF SCALAR IMPLICATURES : EVIDENCE FOR EMBEDDED IMPLICATURES ⇤
Embedded Implicatures, Gennaro Chierchia, D. Fox, B. Spector
200994 citations
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Bare Numerals and Scalar Implicatures
B. Spector
2013Language and Linguistics Compass85 citations
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Interpreting numerals and scalar items under memory load
P. Marty, E. Chemla, B. Spector
201384 citations Open access
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Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact
B. Spector, Yasutada Sudo
2017Linguistics and Philosophy58 citations Open access
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Characterizing logical consequence in many-valued logic
E. Chemla, P. Égré, B. Spector
2017Journal of Logic and Computation57 citations Open access
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Hurford disjunctions: embedded exhaustification and structural economy
Roni Katzir, A. Anvari, E. Chemla, Gennaro Chierchia +9 more
201453 citations
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Interpreting plural predication: homogeneity and non-maximality
Manuel Križ, B. Spector
2020Linguistics and Philosophy47 citations Open access
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Asymmetric inference towards the antonym : experiments into the polarity and morphology of negated adjectives
Nicolas Ruytenbeek, S. Verheyen, B. Spector
201746 citations Open access
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Modified numerals and maximality
Brian Buccola, B. Spector
201642 citations
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Bounding the Last Mile: Efficient Learned String Indexing
B. Spector, Andreas Kipf, Kapil Vaidya, Chi Wang +2 more
2021arXiv.org33 citations
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A Semantics for Degree Questions Based on Intervals: Negative Islands and Their Obviation
Márta Abrusán, B. Spector
2011Journal of Semantics30 citations
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Modalized Questions and Exhaustivity
B. Spector
200729 citations Open access
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Comparing exhaustivity operators
B. Spector
201728 citations Open access
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Plural Indefinite DPs as Plural-Polarity Items
B. Spector
200325 citations
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Not Too Strong ! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition
C. Mayr, B. Spector
201024 citations
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T INKER , TAILOR , SOLDIER , SPY *
Ora Matushansky, B. Spector
200523 citations
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An Unnoticed Reading for Wh-Questions: Elided Answers and Weak Islands
B. Spector
2008Linguistic Inquiry22 citations
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Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge: Comments on Magri (2011)
B. Spector
201420 citations
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Distinctions between primary and secondary scalar implicatures
Anouk Dieuleveut, E. Chemla, B. Spector
2019Journal of Memory and Language17 citations Open access
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Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages: A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle
Émile Enguehard, B. Spector
2021Semantics and Pragmatics16 citations Open access
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Multivalent Semantics for Vagueness and Presupposition
B. Spector
201616 citations Open access
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Phantom readings: the case of modified numerals
P. Marty, E. Chemla, B. Spector
201516 citations Open access
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Circumstantial modality and the diversity condition
Guillaume Thomas, V. Homer, A. Mari, L. Matthewson +3 more
201416 citations
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87. Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
Gennaro Chierchia, D. Fox, B. Spector
201216 citations
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Quantificational features in distributional word representations
Tal Linzen, Emmanuel Dupoux, B. Spector
2016International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation14 citations Open access
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On the optimality of vagueness: “around”, “between” and the Gricean maxims
Paul Egr'e, B. Spector, Adele Mortier, S. Verheyen
2020Linguistics and Philosophy12 citations Open access
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UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Truthful resolutions: A new perspective on false-answer sensitivity
N. Theiler, F. Roelofsen, M. Aloni, Boban Arsenijević +8 more
11 citations
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The pragmatics of plural predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality within the Rational Speech Act Model
B. Spector
2025Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium9 citations Open access
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Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs
Alexandre Cremers, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, B. Spector
2022Cognitive Sciences8 citations Open access
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A uniform semantics for embedded interrogatives: an answer, not necessarily the answer
B. Spector, P. Égré
2015Synthese8 citations Open access
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Vagueness, presupposition and truth-value judgements
Jérémy Zehr, P. Égré, O. Percus, R. Muskens +3 more
20148 citations
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Priming plural ambiguities
Mora Maldonado, E. Chemla, B. Spector
20177 citations Open access
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An Interval-Based Semantics for DegreeQuestions: Negative Islands and Their Obviation
Márta Abrusán, B. Spector
20086 citations
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Trivalence and transparency: a non-dynamic approach to anaphora
B. Spector
2026Linguistics and Philosophy3 citations Open access
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The Role of Prior Beliefs in The Rational Speech Act Model of Pragmatics: Exhaustivity as a Case Study
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, B. Spector
2019Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society3 citations
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Modified Numerals
B. Spector
2020The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics2 citations Open access
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Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast.
Mora Maldonado, E. Chemla, B. Spector
2019Cognition2 citations Open access
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Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustification
B. Spector
20152 citations
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Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge
B. Spector
20142 citations
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Pseudo Weak Crossover in French relative clauses & global economy
B. Spector
20042 citations
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