{"pk":27351,"title":"Surprisingly: Marker of Surprise Readings or Intensifier?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigate the influence of the adverb surprisingly on themeaning of the quantity words few and many, which them-selves have been associated with a reading expressing sur-prise. To learn about the meaning contribution of “surprise”,we compare surprisingly with the intensifier incredibly anda compared to phrase explicitly marking surprise. Based onan empirical measure of subjects’ expectations about everydayevents, a Bayesian model uses data from a sentence judgmenttask to infer likely levels of surprise associated with the differ-ent constructions of interest.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"intensifier"},{"word":"surprise"},{"word":"Computational Modeling"},{"word":"few"},{"word":"many"},{"word":"surprisingly"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7210q317","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Anthea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sch ̈oller","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Franke","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tubingen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27351/galley/16987/download/"}]}