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/11803/13 -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
At 18:00, ther e will be a short presentation about research inte rnships offered by Amsterdam-based company Pacmed (ht tps://pacmed.ai/en), and at 18:30 Flavia Nährl ich will give a talk on Comparative Illusions - How one sentence can challenge fundamental princ iples in linguistics. The Zoom meeting ID wil l be provided on the cool logic website shortly be fore the talk.
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n comparative sentences like "More people hav
e been to Russia than I have." 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.