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UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2020/newsitem/12100/9-
 October-2020-Meaning-Logic-and-Cognition-MLC-Semin
 ar-Fausto-Carcassi
DTSTAMP:20201005T132621
SUMMARY:Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Semina
 r, Fausto Carcassi
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Fausto Carcassi
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20201009T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20201005T173000
LOCATION:Online, via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:While ‘most’ and ‘more than half’ are 
 generally assumed to be truth-conditionally equiva
 lent, the former is usually interpreted as conveyi
 ng greater proportions than the latter. Previous w
 ork has attempted to explain this difference in te
 rms of pragmatic strengthening or variation in mea
 nings. In this talk, we propose a novel explanatio
 n that keeps the truth-conditions equivalence. We 
 support this explanation with a computational mode
 l of usage in the Rational Speech Act framework. W
 e find that the difference in typical proportions 
 associated with the two expressions can be explain
 ed with previously independently motivated semanti
 c and pragmatic mechanisms.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n  <p>While ‘most’ a
 nd ‘more than half’ are generally assumed to be tr
 uth-conditionally equivalent, the former is usuall
 y interpreted as conveying greater proportions tha
 n the latter. Previous work has attempted to expla
 in this difference in terms of pragmatic strengthe
 ning or variation in meanings. In this talk, we pr
 opose a novel explanation that keeps the truth-con
 ditions equivalence. We support this explanation w
 ith a computational model of usage in the Rational
  Speech Act framework. We find that the difference
  in typical proportions associated with the two ex
 pressions can be explained with previously indepen
 dently motivated semantic and pragmatic mechanisms
 .</p>\n
URL:http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/MLC-Seminar/e
 vent/35168/-Most-vs-more-than-half-A-pragmatic-exp
 lanation-and-an-RSA-model
CONTACT:Dean McHugh at d.m.mchugh at uva.nl
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