{"id":11864,"date":"2019-02-19T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:30:48","slug":"complang-2-21-sherry-chen-mit-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/02\/19\/complang-2-21-sherry-chen-mit-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"CompLang 2\/21 - Sherry Chen (MIT Linguistics)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Sherry Yong Chen (MIT Linguistics)
Title:<\/strong>\u00a0The linguistics of one, two, three
Time:<\/strong> Thursday 02\/21, 5-6pm
Location:<\/strong>\u00a046-5165

Abstract:<\/strong>
The interpretation of number words in context is of interest not only to linguists, but also logicians, psychologists, and computer scientists. In this talk, we will discuss some theoretical and developmental questions related to the linguistics of English numerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bare numerals (e.g. two<\/em>, three<\/em>)\n present an interesting puzzle to semantic and pragmatic theories, as \nthey seem to vary between several different interpretations:\n \u0091at least n<\/em>\u0092, \u0091exactly n<\/em>\u0092, and sometimes even \u0091at most n<\/em>\u0092.\n We will examine how the availability of a particular interpretation \nseems to depend on the interaction between linguistic structure and \ncontextual factors, and discuss three approaches\n that try to capture the relationship between these interpretations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning\n to the acquisition of bare numerals, developmental research suggests \nthat preschoolers by the age of 5 are able to access \n\u0092non-exactly’ interpretations of\n a bare numeral in contexts where these interpretations are licensed, \njust like adult speakers. A natural hypothesis for this is that the \nknowledge of the full range of interpretations may come through a prior \nunderstanding of the meaning of explicit expressions\n such as \u0091at least\/at most\u0092 in English. This turns out to be \nquestionable, however, since it is also shown that 5-year-olds haven\u0092t \nyet acquired the meaning of the expressions at least<\/em> and at most<\/em> yet. Time permitting, we will end with a discussion\n about what all this means for the development of numerical concept and\/or language development in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker:\u00a0Sherry Yong Chen (MIT Linguistics) Title:\u00a0The linguistics of one, two, three Time: Thursday 02\/21, 5-6pmLocation:\u00a046-5165 Abstract:The interpretation of number words in context is of interest not only to linguists, but also logicians, psychologists, and computer scientists. In this talk, we will discuss some theoretical and developmental questions related to the linguistics of English numerals. Bare […]<\/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-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","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=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11877,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}