{"id":13203,"date":"2020-02-18T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13203"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:52:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T14:52:33","slug":"langacq-essl-meeting-02-21-martin-hackl-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/02\/18\/langacq-essl-meeting-02-21-martin-hackl-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LangAcq\/ESSL Meeting 02\/21 - Martin Hackl (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Martin Hackl<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Title<\/strong>: On Detecting Haddock&#8217;s Puzzle<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Time<\/strong>: Friday 02\/21 2-3pm<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: 32-D831<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Haddock&#8217;s Puzzle is a famous problem regarding the following types of sentences:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">(In a situation where there are two hats, one with a rabbit in it)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">(1) *The happy rabbit is in the hat. (Violates uniqueness presupposition l<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>(2) The rabbit in the hat is happy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The puzzle lies in the fact that sentence (2) is more acceptable than (1) despite the fact that the uniqueness presupposition is still violated. I discuss methods we have tried and are considering in the effort to detect and manipulate this effect via online crowdsourcing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Martin Hackl Title: On Detecting Haddock&#8217;s Puzzle Time: Friday 02\/21 2-3pm Location: 32-D831 \u00a0 Haddock&#8217;s Puzzle is a famous problem regarding the following types of sentences: (In a situation where there are two hats, one with a rabbit in it) (1) *The happy rabbit is in the hat. (Violates uniqueness presupposition l (2) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13205,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions\/13205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}