Series
Alejandro Lleras (Psychology, University of Illinois)
Parallel Peripheral Processing in Visual Search
Double header! Lunch served at 12:15.
Michelle Erskine (HESP)
Dialect mismatch influences language comprehension in young children
Kara Hawthorne (Assistant Professor at Gallaudet)
Prosody in Speech, Language, and Speech-Language Pathology
Lynne Tirrel (Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut)
Toxic Speech: Core Concepts of Discursive Epidemiology
Fabrizio Cariani (Department of Philosophy, Northwestern)
Karen Lewis (Department of Philosophy, Columbia University)
Descriptions, pronouns, and uniqueness
Abstract: Both definite descriptions and pronouns are often anaphoric; that is, part of their interpretation in context depends on prior linguistic material in the discourse. For example:
(1) A student walked in. The student sat down.
(2) A student walked in. She sat down.