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 -May-2020-Pacmed-internship-presentation-Cool-Logi
 c-seminar-Flavia-Nährlich-Giovanni-Cina
DTSTAMP:20200511T140256
SUMMARY:Pacmed internship presentation / Cool Logi
 c seminar, Flavia Nährlich, Giovanni Cina
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Flavia Nährlich, Giovanni Ci
 na
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200513T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200513T193000
LOCATION:Online / Zoom
DESCRIPTION:At 18:00, there will be a short presen
 tation about research internships offered by Amste
 rdam-based company Pacmed (https://pacmed.ai/en), 
 and at 18:30 Flavia Nährlich will give a talk on C
 omparative Illusions - How one sentence can challe
 nge fundamental principles in linguistics. The Zoo
 m meeting ID will be provided on the cool logic we
 bsite shortly before the talk.  Abstract:  Certain
  comparative sentences like "More people have been
  to Russia than I have." are known as so-called co
 mparative illusions. Native speakers of English ju
 dge these statements as acceptable, i.e. report th
 at they are proper English sentences with a cohere
 nt interpretation. However, it turns out that peop
 le struggle to articulate that interpretation. In 
 fact, it is not clear at all if there is a coheren
 t meaning that we can assign or where the illusion
  of grammatical correctness originates from. This 
 challenges some of our most basic assumptions abou
 t language architecture, like that we perceive sen
 tences veridically, interpret them fully and that 
 sentence form and meaning are tightly coupled. Dur
 ing the talk, I will present a possible solution f
 or all these problems, the category mismatch hypot
 hesis, I developed based on existing experimental 
 data and some German examples.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n  <p>At 18:00, ther
 e will be a short presentation about research inte
 rnships offered by Amsterdam-based company Pacmed 
 (<a href="https://pacmed.ai/en" target="_blank">ht
 tps://pacmed.ai/en</a>), and at 18:30 Flavia Nährl
 ich will give a talk on <em>Comparative Illusions 
 - How one sentence can challenge fundamental princ
 iples in linguistics</em>. The Zoom meeting ID wil
 l be provided on the cool logic website shortly be
 fore the talk.</p>\n\n  <p>Abstract:<br>\n  Certai
 n comparative sentences like &quot;More people hav
 e been to Russia than I have.&quot; are known as s
 o-called comparative illusions. Native speakers of
  English judge these statements as acceptable, i.e
 . report that they are proper English sentences wi
 th a coherent interpretation. However, it turns ou
 t that people struggle to articulate that interpre
 tation. In fact, it is not clear at all if there i
 s a coherent meaning that we can assign or where t
 he illusion of grammatical correctness originates 
 from. This challenges some of our most basic assum
 ptions about language architecture, like that we p
 erceive sentences veridically, interpret them full
 y and that sentence form and meaning are tightly c
 oupled. During the talk, I will present a possible
  solution for all these problems, the category mis
 match hypothesis, I developed based on existing ex
 perimental data and some German examples.</p>\n
URL:http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/114
CONTACT:Cool Logic at coollogic.uva at gmail.com
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