LSLT: Yi Ting Huang (HESP/MLSC)

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LSLT: Upon Reflection. This semester, we've asked presenters to give reflective talks about their most prominent work from the past. How did they understand the question then, and how do they see it now? See the full lineup here! Lunch will be served starting at 12:15. Vegetarian options available. Let us know if you have other dietary restrictions!

This week: Yi Ting Huang, Associate Professor of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Director of the Language Science Center

Revisiting “Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers”: Timing, modularity, and algorithmic-level descriptions of spoken-language comprehension

Abstract: Huang and Snedeker (2009) found that pragmatic inferences – even garden variety ones – unfold in real time. This raised a whole host of questions about which meanings are stored in the lexicon, which ones are computed as needed during communication, and what are sensible boundaries between semantics and pragmatics. In this talk, I’ll re-evaluate whether these are the right questions to ask, and consider the linking assumption between timing differences and algorithms for spoken-language comprehension.