{"id":1726,"date":"2010-09-13T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2010-09-12T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T19:47:28","slug":"ling-lunch-416-pranav-anand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/09\/13\/ling-lunch-416-pranav-anand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 9\/16: Pranav Anand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: The role of upward monotonicity in the interpretation of<br clear='none'\/>\nplurals: A view from image verification<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thurs 9\/16, 12:30-1:45<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: <a href=\"http:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/map-jpg?mapterms=32-D461\">32-D461<\/a><\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plural DPs possess the vexing capability to be inclusive, capable of<br clear='none'\/>\nallowing atomic reference in some sentences, but to be exclusive in<br clear='none'\/>\nothers. The several proposals for this double?life (Krifka 1989,<br clear='none'\/>\nSauerland et al. 2005, Spector 2007, Farkas & de Swart 2010) converge<br clear='none'\/>\nin analyzing the distinction in terms of pragmatic competition,<br clear='none'\/>\nsuggested by dispreference for exclusive plurals in downward monotone<br clear='none'\/>\n(DM) environments. A number of analyses (Spector 2007, Farkas and de<br clear='none'\/>\nSwart 2010, Sauerland et al. 2005) connect this competition to the<br clear='none'\/>\nStrongest Meaning Hypothesis, suggesting that, other things being<br clear='none'\/>\nequal, an exclusive reading is preferred in UM contexts and an<br clear='none'\/>\ninclusive reading is preferred in DM ones. This talk examines this<br clear='none'\/>\nclaim empirically in the context of image verification for bare<br clear='none'\/>\nplurals under each. Although acceptability responses do show that<br clear='none'\/>\nspeakers verify exclusive plural readings significantly more often in<br clear='none'\/>\nthe nuclear scope (NS) of each than in the restrictor (R), the effect<br clear='none'\/>\nsize is small. This result comports with evidence that exclusive<br clear='none'\/>\nplurality is sensitive to the ecological settings defeating scalar<br clear='none'\/>\ninference (Khan et al. 2010) and argues that the principle driving<br clear='none'\/>\nexclusivity is a factor subject to strong situational reduction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz) Title: The role of upward monotonicity in the interpretation of plurals: A view from image verification Time: Thurs 9\/16, 12:30-1:45 Place: 32-D461 Plural DPs possess the vexing capability to be inclusive, capable of allowing atomic reference in some sentences, but to be exclusive in others. The several proposals for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}