Ruthe Foushee Director, Center for Human Language & Development The New School for Social Research Active Learning and Social Ecologies in Cross-Cultural Language Development How is language development so consistent, when language learning environments are so variable? I will talk about two intertwined lines of recent and ongoing work in response to the […]
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Alexander Williams Department of Linguistics University of Maryland Must Haves (Joint work with Valentine Hacquard and Dan Goodhue) This is an exploratory talk about epistemic uses of “have to” and how they differ from those of “must”. The difference is important semantically because analyses of epistemic modality have been based on the bad […]
Paloma Jeretič Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania What does have mean? how patterns across languages can shed light on the building blocks of linguistic meaning The auxiliary verb have has a wide range of functions in English. It is unclear whether it should have one highly underspecified meaning, several different meanings, or […]
Join us for our bimonthly Social Psychology seminar series, held in the Agora space of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Lunch will be provided. Email bhatiasu@sas.upenn.edu to join the mailing list. Eugen Dimant Behavioral and Decision Sciences University of Pennsylvania
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Sarah McAnulty Science Communicator Executive Director, Skype a Scientist Weaving Science into Philly Neighborhoods Science communication exists within an ecosystem of messaging. Every day, people experience messages from social media, traditional news sources, and conversations with their fellow […]