Devin Singh Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University Debt, Guilt, and the Foundations of Law This lecture explores the blurring of economic, moral, and legal categories that takes place through the longstanding association among debt, guilt, and law. Questioning why so often to […]
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Andrea Beltrama MindCORE Fellow University of Pennsylvania When is the food simply delicious? Tackling the puzzle of emphatic exclusives When occurring next to predicates located at the extreme of a scale, exclusive modifiers such as “just” and “simply” contribute an emphatic effect, intensifying the meaning of the utterance. I will refer to these […]
Alex Filipowicz Kable Lab, University of Pennsylvania Title and abstract forthcoming A pizza lunch will be served.
Deepu Murty Department of Psychology Temple University “The influence of agency on encoding and post-encoding processes” Click here for more information.
Rushen Shi Université du Québec à Montréal Grammatical Acquisition in the First Years of Life How do children begin language acquisition? According to certain classic views, preverbal and early verbal infants lack grammatical knowledge. In this talk I will discuss empirical findings from my lab showing that infants start acquiring aspects of the […]