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Benjamin Spector

Benjamin Spector has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2020, most of them on Implicature.

2 papers in our library · 2016–2020

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 21 · 129 works · 2,459 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 2 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5622

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 Affiliations

🔬Institut Jean NicodParis · France2007–2026 · 39 paperscurrent🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France2013–2026 · 22 paperscurrent🔬École Normale Supérieure - PSLParis · France2013–2026 · 21 paperscurrent🔬École des hautes études en sciences socialesParis · France2013–2026 · 21 paperscurrent🎓Université Paris Sciences et LettresParis · France2015–2026 · 17 paperscurrent🎓Harvard UniversityCambridge · United States2007–2015 · 4 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksComputational Theory and Mathematics · 1 workPhilosophy · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Implicature · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20201 paperOn the Optimality of Vagueness: "Around", "Between", and the Gricean Maxims

2010s

20161 paperComparing exhaustivity operators

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Comparing exhaustivity operators (2016 · 24 citations)
    Exhaustivity operators model how a sentence is strengthened by its quantity (scalar) implicatures. They take a proposition and a set of alternatives and return a stronger proposition. The simple Krifka-style operator negates every alternative the sentence does not entail, and it breaks down on disjunctions. The…
  2. On the Optimality of Vagueness: "Around", "Between", and the Gricean Maxims (2020 · 1 citation)
    The paper asks why ordinary language keeps vague expressions rather than replacing them with precise ones.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 1 citing paper with a page here →.

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