{"id":11654,"date":"2018-11-13T05:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11654"},"modified":"2018-11-13T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T13:41:59","slug":"lab-meeting-1116-sherry-yong-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/11\/13\/lab-meeting-1116-sherry-yong-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Meeting 11\/16 - Sherry Yong Chen (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Sherry Yong\u00a0 Chen (MIT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Resolving scope ambiguity under (negative) degree questions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Friday, 11\/16, 2-3pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D831<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>This talk presents work-in-progress that provides evidence for facilitation effects of certain types of Question under Discussion (QUD) on scope ambiguity resolution. Specifically, when an ambiguous sentence involves a negation and a comparative quantifier (CQP), a negative QUD facilitates access to the inverse scope reading, but <em>only<\/em> when the non-negated question nucleus is expected to hold in a given context. We discuss our results with references to the ignorance inference of comparative numerals, maximal informativeness, question answer congruence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sherry Yong\u00a0 Chen (MIT) Title: Resolving scope ambiguity under (negative) degree questions Date and time: Friday, 11\/16, 2-3pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: This talk presents work-in-progress that provides evidence for facilitation effects of certain types of Question under Discussion (QUD) on scope ambiguity resolution. Specifically, when an ambiguous sentence involves a negation and a comparative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11679,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}