{"id":4549,"date":"2012-10-09T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2012-10-09T00:38:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T04:38:57","slug":"linguistics-colloquium-1012-pranav-anand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/10\/09\/linguistics-colloquium-1012-pranav-anand\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Colloquium 10\/12 - Pranav Anand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/people.ucsc.edu\/~panand\/\">Pranav Anand<\/a> (UC Santa Cruz)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Friday, Oct 12, 3:30-5p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-141<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally.<br clear='none'\/>\nPotentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the<br clear='none'\/>\nexperimental environment itself shapes participants\u0092 models of<br clear='none'\/>\nextra?linguistic context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest<br clear='none'\/>\nthat the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of<br clear='none'\/>\nfactors: task structure, social norms, and type of response elicited.<br clear='none'\/>\nHowever, these results provide only a few points in a vast space of<br clear='none'\/>\npotential task parameters, thereby limiting our ability to systematically<br clear='none'\/>\nmodel the interaction between linguistic forms, context and pragmatic<br clear='none'\/>\ninference. This talk reports ongoing work to systematically investigate the<br clear='none'\/>\nparametric space of task design. We find that implicature calculation rates<br clear='none'\/>\nare sensitive to both the structure of the response elicited (e.g., scalar<br clear='none'\/>\nvs. unordered) as well as the task prompt (whether the participant judges<br clear='none'\/>\n&#8220;accuracy&#8221;, &#8220;informativity&#8221;, or &#8220;goodness&#8221;), and discuss the methodological<br clear='none'\/>\nlessons of this kind of work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz) Title: Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature Date\/Time: Friday, Oct 12, 3:30-5p Location: 32-141 There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants\u0092 models of extra?linguistic context. A spate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}