{"id":6520,"date":"2014-10-20T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2014-10-20T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:49:47","slug":"lfrg-1023-yimei-xiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/10\/20\/lfrg-1023-yimei-xiang\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 10\/23 - Yimei Xiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/yxiang\">Yimei Xiang<\/a> (Harvard)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Mention-Some Readings of Indirect Questions: from Experiments to Formalizations<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thursday, October 23, 5:30-7pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In this talk, I look for experimental clues and propose a schematized analysis for the following<br clear='none'\/>\nthree problems about mention-some (MS) readings of indirect questions. First, which type(s) of<br clear='none'\/>\nindirect questions admit MS readings? Second, is there any MS reading sensitive to false answers<br clear='none'\/>\n(FAs)? Third, are FAs equally bad? Based on the results of five TVJTs on ATurk and the reanalysis<br clear='none'\/>\nof Klinedinst & Rothschild\u0092s (2011) raw data, I find that (i) MS readings are also supported by<br clear='none'\/>\nindirect MA-questions under predicates like tell; (ii) there is an MS reading sensitive to FAs, in<br clear='none'\/>\nparallel to the intermediately exhaustive reading; and (iii) FAs are not equally bad, in particular,<br clear='none'\/>\nover affirmation is relatively more acceptable than over deny in MA-questions, while over deny is<br clear='none'\/>\nrelatively more acceptable than over affirmation in MS-questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Yimei Xiang (Harvard) Title: Mention-Some Readings of Indirect Questions: from Experiments to Formalizations Time: Thursday, October 23, 5:30-7pm Location: 32-D461 In this talk, I look for experimental clues and propose a schematized analysis for the following three problems about mention-some (MS) readings of indirect questions. First, which type(s) of indirect questions admit MS readings? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}