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Wednesday
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
In the seminar, we will discuss a selection of up-to-date topics in the philosophy of language and cognition. The seminar provides an opportunity for BA, MA, and PhD students to present their own thesis projects and receive feedback. It addresses students who have a particular interest in theoretical and experiment studies on the comprehension of language and its interaction with cognition. To earn credits, students are expected to do a presentation. To earn up to 6CPs, students can choose between writing a term paper and taking the opportunity to do an internship in our EEG lab plus protocol. The topics we will discuss, among others, are: · The influence of linguistic context on lexical meaning - theory and experiments · Implicatures, presuppositions, co-suppositions and how to test them in experiments · The role of co-speech gestures in communication - theory and experiments · The evaluation of large language models relative to human language comprehension using EEG and other methods Even though, the language of most papers and presentations will be in English, contributions to discussions can also be made in German. Literature · Werning, M., Hinzen, W., & Machery, E. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199541072.001.0001 · Schlenker, P. (2022). What it all means: Semantics for (almost) everything. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12128.001.0001 · Schlenker, P. (2022). What it all means: Semantics for (almost) everything. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12128.001.0001