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Richard Breheny

Richard Breheny has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2026, most of them on Implicature, English; often with Jacopo Romoli, Paul Marty, Sonia Ramotowska.

2 papers in our library · 2022–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 20 · 113 works · 2,609 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10427

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 Affiliations

🎓University College LondonLondon · United Kingdom2005–2026 · 40 paperscurrent🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom2001–2015 · 5 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksPsychology · 2 works

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 workImplicature · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20221 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. The role of Alternatives in the interpretation of scalars and numbers: Insights from the inference task (2022 · 6 citations)
    Numerical noun phrases ("three children") are ambiguous between "at least n" and "exactly n". The scalar-implicature view says the exact reading comes from excluding a higher alternative, as "some" gives "not all". The authors test this with an inference task, where participants judge whether a sentence licenses the…
  2. On the source of distributive inferences (2026)
    The paper examines how two inferences relate when a disjunction sits under a universal operator. For "every box contains A or B", hearers infer that some box has A and some box has B. These are distributive (D) inferences. Hearers may also infer that not every box has A, and likewise for B. These are negated…

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

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

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