Terp semantics at the first Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
September 05, 2020
Experimental semantics from Maryland featured at new conference, with work by Anouk, Tyler, Jad and Dan, plus several faculty and alums
Florian Schwarz and Anna Papafragou at UPenn have a organized a new conference on experimental work directed at questions of semantics and pragmatics: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning. Drawing in part from the community that flourishes at MACSIM, the very first ELM, online September 16-18, has a rich and impressive program, including work by Anouk Dieuleveut, Tyler Knowlton, and Dan Goodhue, with faculty collaborators Valentine Hacquard, Ailis Cournane (NYU), Jeff Lidz, Alexander Williams, Paul Pietroski (UMD, Rutgers) and Justin Halberda (Hopkins), as well as work by BA alum Morgan Moyer, postbac RA alums Anissa Zaitsu and Jad Wehbe, PhD alum Alexis Wellwood, and postdoctoral alums Ming Xiang and Martin Hackl; and also by a crew including Terrapin philosopher Paolo Santorio. This is sure to be a fruitful venue for future work from UMD in semantics and psycholinguistics.
- Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailís Cournane and Valentine Hacquard, Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals (talk)
- Tyler Knowlton, Paul Pietroski, Alexander Williams, Justin Halberda and Jeffrey Lidz, Memory for cardinality supports a one-set account of conservativity (talk)
- Daniel Goodhue, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz, Children's interpretation of rising vs. falling intonation in declarative clauses (poster)
- Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli and Paolo Santorio, Counterfactuals and undefinedness: homogeneity vs. supervaluations
- Morgan Moyer and Kristen Syrett, Licensing (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions: Experimental studies (talk)
- Anissa Zaitsu, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, Clause types and speech acts in speech to children (poster)
- Alexis Wellwood, Deniz Rudin and Jaime Castillo-Gamboa, 'Being tall compared to' compared to 'being tall' and 'being taller' (poster)
- Jeffrey Geiger and Ming Xiang, Toward an accommodation account of deaccenting under nonidentity (talk)