Finally, the Cognition paper with Shane is out. We argue that ease of learnability explains cross-linguistic universals across various semantics domains, including content and function words. We first recall our …
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A new class on Semantics & Cognition
The past decade has seen increasing interaction between cognitive science and formal semantics and the emergence of the new field of experimental semantics. It feels like the ties between semantics …
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Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning: Monotonicity in Logic and Language
Monotonicity, in various forms, is a pervasive phenomenon in logic, linguistics, and related areas. Tshingua university in Beijing is organizing TLLM2020 workshop devoted to recent discussions involving monotonicity. The first …
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Talk for the opening of the academic year 2019/20
I am thrilled to give a talk for The Faculty of Humanities’ festive opening of the academic year of 2019-2020. It’s even more exciting as it’s going to be my …
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Learnability of Quantifiers @ESSLLI 2019
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 …
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Learnability, complexity, and evolution. CogSci 2019 papers.
In the paper forthcoming in Semantics & Pragmatics, Shane and I have proposed that semantic universals of quantification can be explained in terms of learnability. We claim that many semantic …
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Summer School on Interacting Minds
To kick-off the Interacting Minds Joint Research Center of University of Amsterdam and Edinburgh University we organize a summer school. We decided on the Dutch Coast, just that everyone feels …
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Workshop on Semantic Universals @Amsterdam Colloquium 2019
The Amsterdam Colloquium will take place this year on December 18–20. In addition to the general programme, the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium will feature two workshops: one on Semantic Universals and …
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3rd INTERDISCIPLINARY FNP CONFERENCE
I’m honored to be invited for the round table discussion on Writing International Grant Proposals to be held at the 3rd Interdisciplinary Foundation for Polish Science Conference. The discussion will …
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REASONING, ARGUMENTATION, AND LOGIC IN NATURAL LANGUAGE: EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS WORKSHOP
I’m looking forward to participating in this workshop in Bochum on April 3-5. I will give a keynote talk titled “Why Natural Language Quantifiers are Monotone” in which I will …
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