Thursday, October 4, 2018
ICS Colloquium: Parsing preferences, processing complexity, and scalar implicatures
Date: Oct 10, 2018 3pm-4:30pm Location: Dunton Tower: Room 2203 Speaker: Raj Singh Title: Parsing preferences, processing complexity, and scalar implicatures Abstract: Scalar implicatures are inferences that enrich the basic meaning of a sentence. For example, a listener who hears the sentence Sam ate some of the cookies will often conclude... More