Polar Questions in SPA–TTR: Linking Dialogue, Acquisition, and Neurosemantics

Jonathan Ginzburg; Shiyun Dong; Robin Cooper; Andy Lücking; Staffan Larsson

Polar Questions in SPA–TTR: Linking Dialogue, Acquisition, and Neurosemantics

Jonathan Ginzburg, Shiyun Dong, Robin Cooper, Andy Lücking, Staffan Larsson

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In this paper, we offer an extension of an earlier proposal for treating wh-questions within a compositional, neurally–implemented semantic framework that interfaces with memory to the other main class of questions, namely polar questions. Our proposal yields improved empirical coverage for polar questions as compared with previous formal semantic accounts. It also offers the basis for an account of the finding that understanding for wh-questions emerges in language development before that of polar questions–a finding that goes against all previous formal semantics accounts of questions where polar questions are simplest in terms of their semantic complexity.

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Cite (ACL):: Jonathan Ginzburg, Shiyun Dong, Robin Cooper, Andy Lücking, and Staffan Larsson. 2026. Polar Questions in SPA–TTR: Linking Dialogue, Acquisition, and Neurosemantics. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on the Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (BriGap-3), pages 40–49, Paris, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Polar Questions in SPA–TTR: Linking Dialogue, Acquisition, and Neurosemantics](https://aclanthology.org/2026.brigap-1.5/) (Ginzburg et al., BriGap 2026)

Polar Questions in SPA–TTR: Linking Dialogue, Acquisition, and Neurosemantics (Ginzburg et al., BriGap 2026)

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Jonathan Ginzburg, Shiyun Dong, Robin Cooper, Andy Lücking, and Staffan Larsson. 2026. Polar Questions in SPA–TTR: Linking Dialogue, Acquisition, and Neurosemantics. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on the Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (BriGap-3), pages 40–49, Paris, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.