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Asymmetries in presupposition projection: processing and acquisition

Abstract: Presuppositions triggered in the right arguments of binary connectives such as if and or are sometimes inherited wholesale by the sentence, as illustrated in (1). Sometimes, however, the sentence as a whole presupposes something weaker, e.g. (2).

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Constraints on theories of language processing

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Syntactic structure building: lessons from periphrasis

Please join us to hear about research that undergraduates in the Linguistics department have been working on this semester! Drop in at the Language Science Center in H.J.Patterson Hall, or join by zoom (see below for individual poster links)!

Room TBA

Judgement, Opinion, and Ground: Decomposing Subjective Attitudes

In-person watch party in 1108B Marie Mount Hall.

You linguist! On vocatives and expressivity

 

Adam Liter leads the General Meeting with a presentation of work within his dissertation project, "Subjacency, the Empty Category Principle, and the nature of constraints on phrase movement."

 

How much rhythm in language is in short-time acoustics?

 

Dan Goodhue, Jeff Lidz, Yu’an Yang and Valentine Hacquard will present a project they have been developing on children's acquisition of clause types and speech acts, reporting some preliminary results of work they've done. Here's an overview of the topic.

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