Richard Breheny

2.5k total citations
42 papers, 874 citations indexed

About

Richard Breheny is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Breheny has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 874 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Language and Linguistics, 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Richard Breheny's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 papers). Richard Breheny is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 papers). Richard Breheny collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. Richard Breheny's co-authors include Napoleon Katsos, Heather J. Ferguson, John N. Williams, Ye Tian, Iroise Dumontheil, Wing-Yee Chow, Ye Tian, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo and Nathan Klinedinst and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Richard Breheny

38 papers receiving 825 citations

Peers

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Carlo Cecchetto Italy

Daniel Grodner United States

Wietske Vonk Netherlands

Pier Marco Bertinetto Italy

Itziar Laka Spain

Christina L. Gagné Canada

Dominiek Sandra Belgium

Gary Libben Canada

Marcia C. Linebarger United States

Viviane Déprez United States

Carlo Cecchetto Italy

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754 ×1.8

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454 ×1.2

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370 ×1.0

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533 ×1.6

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284 ×1.5

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Breheny. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Breheny based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Breheny. Richard Breheny is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Marty, Paul, et al.. (2025). The ups and downs of ignorance. Natural Language Semantics. 33(1). 1–41.

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Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Bob van Tiel, & Richard Breheny. (2024). Scalar Inferencing, Polarity and Cognitive Load. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 3(1). 2 indexed citations

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Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, & Richard Breheny. (2024). What Makes Linguistic Inferences Robust?. Journal of Semantics. 41(1). 1–52. 1 indexed citations

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Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, & Richard Breheny. (2024). Implicature priming, salience, and context adaptation. Cognition. 244. 105667–105667. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Daphne, et al.. (2024). How can large language models become more human?. 166–176.

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Tian, Ye, et al.. (2023). A corpus-based examination of scalar diversity.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 50(5). 808–818. 2 indexed citations

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Tian, Ye, et al.. (2021). Representing Polar Questions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 50(6). 1535–1555. 2 indexed citations

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Marty, Paul, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, & Richard Breheny. (2021). Negative free choice. Semantics and Pragmatics. 14(13). 1–54. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Shenshen, et al.. (2021). Verifying Negative Sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 50(6). 1511–1534. 6 indexed citations

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Marty, Paul, et al.. (2020). Processing implicatures: a comparison between direct and indirect SIs. 1 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard, et al.. (2019). Removing shared information improves 3- and 4-year-olds’ performance on a change-of-location explicit false belief task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 187. 104665–104665. 5 indexed citations

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Dumontheil, Iroise, et al.. (2015). Development of online use of theory of mind during adolescence: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 149. 81–97. 62 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard. (2015). A Lexical Account of Implicit (Bound) Contextual Dependence. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 55–55. 1 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard, Heather J. Ferguson, & Napoleon Katsos. (2013). Taking the epistemic step: Toward a model of on-line access to conversational implicatures. Cognition. 126(3). 423–440. 74 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Heather J. & Richard Breheny. (2011). Eye movements reveal the time-course of anticipating behaviour based on complex, conflicting desires. Cognition. 119(2). 179–196. 23 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard, Heather J. Ferguson, & Napoleon Katsos. (2010). Taking the epistemic step. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard. (2006). Communication and Folk Psychology. Mind & Language. 21(1). 74–107. 60 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard, Napoleon Katsos, & John N. Williams. (2005). Interaction of Structural and Contextual Constraints During the On-line Generation of Scalar Inferences. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 14 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard, Napoleon Katsos, & John N. Williams. (2005). Are generalised scalar implicatures generated by default? An on-line investigation into the role of context in generating pragmatic inferences. Cognition. 100(3). 434–463. 218 indexed citations

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Breheny, Richard. (2002). Exceptional-Scope Indefinites and Domain Restriction. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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