Jakub Szymanik

Meaning and Computation Lab

Output of ERC grant Cognitive Semantics and Quantities summing up much of my research on up to 2022.
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Associate professor in the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences and the Computer Science Department at the University of Trento.

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Learnability of Quantifiers @ESSLLI 2019

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I have just arrived in Riga for ESSLLI 2019. Tomorrow, Shane and I start teaching the class on the learnability of quantifiers. Only a very limited subset of the mathematically possible quantifier meanings are expressed in any natural language.  One would like an explanation of this fact: why do we only find particular kinds of quantifiers in all languages? This course will assess the idea that the quantifiers we find in natural language are the ones that are easier to learn.