Andrew Buskell Leverhulme Early Career Researcher Department of History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge University Via Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98587974603?pwd=SC9KRXY5ZTdLQlc2ODlwWUI3dFpMUT09 Cultural Groups, Essentialism, and Ontic Risk The comparative study of cultural groups—ethnology—went through turbulent changes over the course of the twentieth century. After shedding an association with ideas of universal progression and social Darwinism, […]
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Daoxin Li Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania 3401 Walnut St. Room 401B, or via Zoom Distributional learning of recursive structures Languages differ regarding the depth, structure, and syntactic domains of recursive structures. For example, English allows infinite free embedding of the prenominal possessive ‘-s’ to express ownership, whereas the postnominal possessive ‘of’ […]