20.1644, Confs: Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/USA

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Subject: 20.1644, Confs: Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/USA

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Date: 29-Apr-2009
From: Pedro Alcocer < pealco at umd.edu >
Subject: Mayfest 2009: Moving Beyond Truth Conditions
 

	
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:11:33
From: Pedro Alcocer [pealco at umd.edu]
Subject: Mayfest 2009: Moving Beyond Truth Conditions

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Mayfest 2009: Moving Beyond Truth Conditions 

Date: 08-May-2009 - 09-May-2009 
Location: College Park, MD, USA 
Contact: Pedro Alcocer 
Contact Email: pealco at umd.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.umd.edu/events/mayfest/2009/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

11th University of Maryland Mayfest.
 
This year's topic: 
Moving Beyond Truth Conditions: The Computation of Meaning.

Every year the graduate students of the Linguistics Department of the University
of Maryland organize a linguistics workshop focusing on a different aspect of
language. The goal of this year's Mayfest is to bring together researchers from
various disciplines to discuss the ways in which cross-disciplinary research can
move the study of semantics beyond truth conditions.

Talks at this year's workshop will center around the mental representation of
meaning. In particular, we are interested in fostering discussion on what kinds
of mental computations are involved in representing sentence meanings, how
real-time understanding can provide insight into these computations, and the
relation between linguistic meaning and extralinguistic concepts. In addressing
these issues, we hope that the talks at this year's Mayfest can illustrate that
experimental methodology provides more than simple arbitration between competing
theories of meaning. 

Mayfest 2008 has no registration fee and is open to all interested guests. Visit our conference website to register! 

Program

Friday 5/8

Presupposition

Philippe Schlenker - From Implicatures to Presuppositions: New Debates on the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
Daniel Rothschild - Explaining Presupposition Projection
Emmanuel Chemla - TBA

Implicatures

Ira Noveck - Pragmatic Enrichment
Dan Grodner - Some Reasons to Doubt that 'Some' (and Probably All) Scalar Inferences are Delayed

Saturday 5/9

Numerosity

Paul Pietroski & Jeff Lidz - The Verificational Thickness of Meaning: Number,Semantics and Psychology
Julien Musolino - The Linguistic Representation of Number: Integrating Formal and Developmental Perspectives

Events and Argument Structure

Matt Husband - The Computation of Telicity
Anna Papafragou - Space in Language and Thought
Liina Pylkkänen - The Anterior Midline Field: Progress Report





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