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| Jan 4 |
- Screencast: Course mechanics
- Screencast: Overview of topics [handout]
- Screencast: Entailment [slides]
- Screencast: Interpreting proper names [handout]
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- Assignment 1 [due Jan 18]
- For LaTeX users: tex source; examples-slim.sty
- Quiz 1 [due Jan 18]
- Quiz 2 [due Jan 18]
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- Partee 1995, p. 311-316
- Perspectives on meaning and interpretation
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| Jan 6 |
| Jan 11 |
- Screencast: Perspectives on meaning and interpretation
- Screencast: Compositionality [handout]
- Screencast: Adjectives and semantic composition [slides; handout]
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- Partee 1995, p. 316-330
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| Jan 13 |
| Jan 18 |
- Compounds and the limits of compositionality
- Screencast: Compounds, part 1
- Screencast: Compounds, part 2
- Screencast: Compounds, part 3
- Screencast: Compounds, part 4
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- Assignment 2 [due Jan 25; tex]
- Quiz 3 [due Jan 25]
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- Levin et al. 2019
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| Jan 20 |
| Jan 25 |
- Semantic composition
- Screencast: Composition, part 1
- Screencast: Composition, part 2
- Screencast: Composition, part 3
- Screencast: Composition, part 4
- Semantic grammar in Python
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- Assignment 3 [due Feb 1; tex]
- Quiz 4 [due Feb 1]
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| Jan 27 |
| Feb 1 |
- Quantifier properties
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 1
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 2
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 3
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 4
- Some formal analyses of determiners
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- Assignment 4 [due Feb 8; tex]
- Quiz 5 [due Feb 8]
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- Keenan 1996
- Optional: von Fintel and Matthewson 2008, §3
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| Feb 3 |
| Feb 8 |
- Introduction to pragmatics
- Screencast: Midterm exam overview
- Screencast: Pragmatics jokes
- Screencast: Pragmatics, part 1
- Screencast: Pragmatics, part 2
- Screencast: Pragmatics, part 3
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- Midterm exam [due Feb 15; tex]
- Guidance on final projects
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- Grice 1975
- Optional: E.O. Keenan 1979
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| Feb 10 |
| Feb 15 |
- Conversational implicature
- Screencast: Conversational implicature [slides]
- Screencast: Conversational implicature diagnostics
- Screencast: Are implicatures universal?
- The Rational Speech Acts model
- RSA implementation in Python
- Screencast: The Rational Speech Acts model
- Reference game results and analysis [full experiment materials]
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- Assignment 5 [due Feb 22; tex]
- Quiz 6 [due Feb 22]
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- Goodman and Frank 2016
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| Feb 17 |
| Feb 22 |
- Presupposition
- Screencast: Presuppositions, part 1
- Screencast: Presuppositions, part 2
- Screencast: Presuppositions, part 3
- Screencast: Presuppositions, part 4
- Diagnosing different kinds of meaning
- Screencast: Diagnosing different kinds of meaning [slides]
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- Assignment 6 [due Mar 1; tex]
- Quiz 7 [due Mar 1]
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- Degen & Tanenhaus 2015, p. 667-684
- Optional: Simons 2006, §1-3
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| Feb 24 |
| Mar 1 |
- Vagueness and context dependence
- Screencast: Vagueness, part 1
- Screencast: Vagueness, part 2
- Screencast: Vagueness, part 3
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- Assignment 7 [due Mar 8; tex]
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- Quiz 8 [due Mar 8]
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- Syrett et al. 2009, §2
- Optional: remaining sections of Syrett et al. 2009
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| Mar 3 |
| Mar 8 |
- Screencast: Final exam overview
- Some answers resembling great final exam answers
- Speech acts
- Screencast: Speech acts, part 1
- Screencast: Speech acts, part 2 [slides]
- Screencast: Speech acts, part 3
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- Final exam distributed Mar 8 and due Mar 16, 11:30 am [tex]
- Final projects due Mar 16, 11:30 am
- All late work must be turned in by Mar 16, 11:30 am, as well
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- Solan and Tiersma 2005, §3: "Consensual searches"
- Solan and Tiersma 2005, §3: "Interrogation, confession, and the right to counsel"
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| Mar 10 |
- Swearing
- Screencast: Swearing, part 1
- Screencast: Swearing, part 2
- Screencast: Swearing, part 3
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- Optional: Podcast: The Allusionist 4: Denotating the C-bomb
- Optional: Podcast: Every Little Thing: F-ck yeah: Can cursing make you stronger?
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