G énéricité HAMPTON 9/6 14h00

[Alda MARI]

Chers collègues, 

dans le cadre de l'ANR Genius (Généricité: Interprétation et Usages) nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la conférence de 

James Hampton 
City University London

How modifiers affect the judged likelihood of generic
sentences

le mercredi 9 juin à 14h00
ENS - 29 rue d'Ulm
salle du DEC (Rdc à droite en rentrant)


Résumé: Connolly et al. (Cognition, 2007) reported an effect that
generic sentences (e.g. ravens are black) are judged less likely
when the subject noun is modified (e.g. jungle ravens are black). A
series of experiments investigated this phenomenon. 1) When people
justify the judgment, three different types of explanation are
offered based on pragmatics, knowledge and ignorance. 2) It is shown
that the effect holds just as strongly when universal quantifiers
are added to the sentence, thus yielding a fallacy. 3) We
investigated whether the effect would be diminished for more central
properties (ravens have wings) compared with surface properties
(ravens are black), and whether it would disappear all together for
categorical sentences (ravens are birds).

Nous rappellons également que la conférence de 
Anamaria Falaus "Alternatives as sources of semantic dependency: the case of epistemic indefinites"
aura lieu le même jour (même lieu) à 10h00. 

Cordialement, 
Alda Mari


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