{"id":1873,"date":"2010-10-25T05:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2010-10-25T06:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T10:12:39","slug":"bcs-cog-lunch-1026-peter-graff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/10\/25\/bcs-cog-lunch-1026-peter-graff\/","title":{"rendered":"BCS Cog Lunch 10\/26 - Peter Graff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Speaker: Peter Graff (MIT)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Constraints on Possible Meanings<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Tues 10\/26, 12pm<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 46-3189<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P>The meanings of natural language determiners can be understood as relations<br clear='none'\/>\nbetween sets (Barwise and Cooper, 1981). It has since been noted that natural<br clear='none'\/>\nlanguage determiners are crucially constrained in the set relations they can<br clear='none'\/>\nexpress. One influential formalization of this typological pattern is<br clear='none'\/>\nConservativity (Keenan and Stavi, 1986), a constraint taken to universally hold<br clear='none'\/>\nfor all denotations of natural language determiners. In this talk we propose a<br clear='none'\/>\nsecond universal generalization over possible denotations in natural language,<br clear='none'\/>\nwhich we term Myopia. We show that this constraint not only excludes many<br clear='none'\/>\ndenotations of natural language determiners previously excluded by<br clear='none'\/>\nConservativity, but also generalizes to predicates of all other lexical<br clear='none'\/>\ncategories, including nouns, verbs, adpositions and adjectives. We go on to<br clear='none'\/>\npresent evidence from an on-line artificial determiner learning study (N=217),<br clear='none'\/>\nshowing that both Conservativity and Myopia are active in determiner learning.<br clear='none'\/>\nConservative determiners are easier to acquire than non-conservative myopic<br clear='none'\/>\ndeterminers, which in turn are easier to acquire than non-conservative<br clear='none'\/>\nnon-myopic determiners providing further evidence that absolute typological<br clear='none'\/>\nuniversals may have different relative impact on language learning.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Peter Graff (MIT) Title: Constraints on Possible Meanings Time: Tues 10\/26, 12pm Location: 46-3189 The meanings of natural language determiners can be understood as relations between sets (Barwise and Cooper, 1981). It has since been noted that natural language determiners are crucially constrained in the set relations they can express. One influential formalization of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}