Sotabase

Career

· Associate Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University2021–2021
· Senior Lecturer in Semantics, University of Edinburgh2021–
· Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University2013–2021
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University2011–2013
· Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistics, New York University2006–2011

Publications (79)

Measurement and Modality: The Scalar Basis of Modal Semantics.
2011
200
cited
Adjectival vagueness in a Bayesian model of interpretation
Synthese · 2017
150
cited
Dispositional optimism and engagement: the moderating influence of goal prioritization.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2009
123
cited
Context, scale structure, and statistics in the interpretation of positive-form adjectives
2013
121
cited
Probabilistic Semantics and Pragmatics: Uncertainty in Language and Thought
2015
112
cited
Illusory Causation: Why It Occurs
Psychology Science · 2002
92
cited
Gradable epistemic modals, probability, and scale structure
2010
89
cited
Videotaped interrogations and confessions: a simple change in camera perspective alters verdicts in simulated trials.
Journal of Applied Psychology · 2002
87
cited
Embedded Implicatures as Pragmatic Inferences under Compositional Lexical Uncertainty
Journal of Semantics · 2015
85
cited
Graded Modality
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics · 2020
75
cited
The Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect
Psychology Science · 2009
75
cited
Vagueness as Probabilistic Linguistic Knowledge
The Victorian · 2009
71
cited
Effects of Affective Expectations on Affective Experience: The Moderating Role of Optimism-Pessimism
2002
70
cited
Must, knowledge, and (in)directness
2016
70
cited
How many kinds of reasoning? Inference, probability, and natural language semantics
Cognition · 2015
57
cited
Presuppositions, provisos, and probability
2012
44
cited
Epistemic Comparison, Models of Uncertainty, and the Disjunction Puzzle
Journal of Semantics · 2015
35
cited
Accountability and the Camera Perspective Bias in Videotaped Confessions
2001
29
cited
Semantic Externalism, Language Variation, and Sociolinguistic Accommodation
2008
29
cited
The weakness of must: In defense of a Mantra
2014
21
cited
Sotabase
Daniel Lassiter | Researcher Profile | Sotabase | Sotabase