28.311, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Hungary

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Subject: 28.311, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Hungary

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:30:51
From: Lilla Pintér [pinterlilla87 at gmail.com]
Subject: Implicatures or Domain Restriction/Domain Widening? Theoretical and Experimental Approaches

 
Full Title: Implicatures or Domain Restriction/Domain Widening? Theoretical and Experimental Approaches 
Short Title: IoD 2017 

Date: 19-Jun-2017 - 20-Jun-2017
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact Person: Lilla Pintér
Meeting Email: iod2017.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.nytud.hu/iod2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
and Pázmány Péter Catholic University are pleased to announce the workshop
“Implicatures or domain restriction/domain widening? – Theoretical and
experimental approaches” to be held on June 19–20, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

The goal of this workshop is to confront various views and experimental
results on how contextual restrictions on the domain of quantification, the
domain of exhaustive focus, the domain of disjunctive coordination, etc. enter
into interpretation in child and adult language. 

According to the traditional neo-Gricean view (e.g., Horn 1981, Levinson 1983,
Kadmon 2001), the basic reading of numerical indefinites is ‛at least n’, and
the ‛exactly n’ reading obtained in certain contexts and out of context is
contributed by a scalar implicature. More recent alternative proposals,
supported by experimental results (e.g. Papafragou and Musolino 2003), claim
that the ‛exactly n’ reading is basic, and the ‛at least n’ reading is derived
by pragmatic inferencing (Horn 1996, Geurts 2006, Breheny 2008). These
conflicting theories have also been used to account for the relation of some
and all/every expressions (Some Hittite scholars were at the reception can be
true if in fact all Hittite scholars were present). Stanley and Szabó’s (2000)
proposal challenges both types of approaches; they argue that the choice
between some Hittite scholars and all Hittite scholars depends on how the
speaker determines the domain with respect to which the quantifier phrase is
evaluated. In this framework neither reading is basic, both are accessible by
suitable contextual manipulations of the domain. 

As is known since Szabolcsi (1981), the exhaustivity of a structural focus,
e.g., the cleft focus in It is Joseph Conrad who was born Polish, too, only
holds with respect to a contextually determined domain. It is debated whether
the coherence of the sentence ''It was two novels by Joseph Conrad that I read
for the exam'', and ''I also read an article about him'' shows that the
exhaustivity of structural focus is an implicature canceled by the second
clause (cf. Wedgwood 2005), or exhaustivity is a non-cancelable
presupposition, and the relevant domain with respect to which exhaustivity is
evaluated is widened in the second clause.

Experimental data show that, given the right context, not only adults but also
children can understand and perform contextually relevant domain restriction.
It is an open question how exactly this is done; whether implicatures are
encapsulated in the logical-semantic module (cf. Chierchia, Fox, and Spector
2012); or – at least in the case of children – local, context-dependent
operations yield the required interpretation; etc. 

We expect abstract submissions discussing these and related issues from any
(theoretical, experimental, linguistic, psycholinguistic etc.) perspectives.

Invited Speakers: 

Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen)

Organizers:

Katalin É. Kiss
Lilla Pintér


2nd Call for Papers:

We expect abstracts for 30-minute talks (+ 10 minute discussions) and poster
presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages,
including references and examples, in 12-point Times New Roman, with margins
of at least 2,5 cm / 1 inch.

Abstracts are to be submitted in pdf-format via EasyChair via the following
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iod2017

One person is allowed to submit maximum two abstracts: one as a sole author or
co-author, and another as a co-author.

Deadline for submission: February 1, 2017

Conference website: http://www.nytud.hu/iod2017/
Contact: iod2017.workshop at gmail.com




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