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From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to Dan Everett tedlab.mit.edu/everett_fests… Talk recordings linked there & here: Session 1 (S1): youtube.com/watch?v=06zefFkh… S2: youtube.com/watch?v=Y9L46_tW… S3: youtube.com/watch?v=WHfb37PZ… S4: youtube.com/watch?v=9OU7Cfxz… S5: youtube.com/watch?v=n_CISDJH…

Talia Konkle is the recipient of the Inaugural Lila R. Gleitman Prize (2023). Way to go Talia!!

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We ran 4 2x2 preregistered comprehension expts. As predicted, we found (1) a strong knowledge effect in each; and (2) an interaction between knowledge and says-numerals, such that, in partial knowledge, people use what the speaker usually says to temper their interpretations

We provide a simple RSA model, building closely on Goodman & Stuhlmuller’s, whose predictions are a main effect of knowledgeability, and an interaction.

Goodman & Stuhlmuller (G&S, 2016) investigated the effect of *speaker knowledgeability* in scalar implicature of the word "some", by having people make bets on whether all or not all objects had the relevant property in scenarios like:

My 4;11 year old just gave me this card It says "DADA NOOB" fair enough