BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2020/newsitem/11702/13 -March-2020-Cool-Logic-Flavia-Nährlich DTSTAMP:20200309T143215 SUMMARY:Cool Logic, Flavia Nährlich ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Flavia Nährlich DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200313T184500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200313T194500 LOCATION:ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107 , Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:Certain comparative sentences like "Mo re people have been to Russia than I have." are kn own as so-called comparative illusions. Native spe akers of English judge these statements as accepta ble, i.e. report that they are proper English sent ences with a coherent interpretation. However, it turns out that people struggle to articulate that interpretation. In fact, it is not clear at all if there is a coherent meaning that we can assign or where the illusion of grammatical correctness ori ginates from. This challenges some of our most bas ic assumptions about language architecture, like t hat we perceive sentences veridically, interpret t hem fully and that sentence form and meaning are t ightly coupled. During the talk, I will present a possible solution for all these problems, the cate gory mismatch hypothesis, I developed based on exi sting experimental data and some German examples. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n

Certain compar ative sentences like "More people have been t o Russia than I have." are known as so-called comparative illusions. Native speakers of English judge these statements as acceptable, i.e. report that they are proper English sentences with a coh erent interpretation. However, it turns out that p eople struggle to articulate that interpretation. In fact, it is not clear at all if there is a cohe rent meaning that we can assign or where the illus ion of grammatical correctness originates from. Th is challenges some of our most basic assumptions a bout language architecture, like that we perceive sentences veridically, interpret them fully and th at sentence form and meaning are tightly coupled. During the talk, I will present a possible solutio n for all these problems, the category mismatch hy pothesis, I developed based on existing experiment al data and some German examples.

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