Ying Gong and Andre Batchelder-Schwab have received funding for a project, titled “Fieldwork on Ersu and Yi language in Southwest China” from the East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC), with the support of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCKF). This fieldwork focuses on two under-studied Tibeto-Burman languages–Ersu (a Qiangic language) and Nuosu Yi (a Lolo-Burmese language)–which […]
Professor Coppock’s contribution to a special volume of Glossa on “non-conservativity with precise proportions” edited by Uli Sauerland and Robert Pasternak is now out! Although “percent” got famous for its non-conservative uses as in “The committee hired 30% WOMEN”, Coppock argues that we should approach the analysis of “percent” via simpler, predicative cases like “The […]
Just out in Linguistics and Philosophy: Modified numerals: Two routes to ignorance by Alexandre Cremers, Elizabeth Coppock, Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen Abstract: Modified numerals, such as at least three and more than five, are known to sometimes give rise to ignorance inferences. However, there is disagreement in the literature regarding the nature of these […]
Danielle Dionne & Elizabeth Coppock published “Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature” in the first-ever volume of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning! Read it here: Cite as: Dionne, Danielle and Elizabeth Coppock (2021). Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature. In Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz, and Anna Papafragou (eds.), […]
When police officers ask drivers to open the trunk, is a “yes” answer a signal of voluntary consent? Our experiment suggests that it’s not. Watch our 3-minute lightning talk! This is for poster presented by Marina Weinstein, Danielle Dionne, Nathaniel Graham, Dylan Pato, and Elizabeth Coppock on June 26th at LMC Workshop ‘MK40: Common Knowledge, […]
Elizabeth Coppock presented a talk entitled “Challenge problems for a theory of degree multiplication (with partial answer key)” at SALT 2021. Slides here: http://eecoppock.info/coppock-salt2021-slides.pdf
Helena Aparicio, Curtis Chen, Roger Levy, and Elizabeth Coppock presented a talk entitled “Granularity in the semantics of comparison” at SALT 2021. Abstract here: https://osf.io/9z54r/
Differences in implicature across languages stem from differences in salience of alternatives by Danielle Dionne & Elizabeth Coppock Abstract Scalar implicature depends on the activation of alternatives. For instance, in English, finger implicates `not thumb’, suggesting that thumb is activated an alternative. Is this because it is more specific (Quantity) and equally short (Manner)? Indeed, […]
James Cooper Roberts has been awarded a summer UROP fellowship, to work on the project of automatically generating referring expressions for objects in complex scenes. He will be developing an annotated corpus. Welcome!
Ying Gong and Elizabeth Coppock presented a talk entitled “Mandarin has degree abstraction after all” at the LSA in January 2021. If you missed it, don’t worry — you can watch it here! http://eecoppock.info/LSA-Ying+Liz.mp4 And here are the slides: http://eecoppock.info/Ying+Coppock-LSA2021Slides-Mandarin_Degree_Abstraction.pdf