McGill-MIT Workshop on Gradability and Quantity in Language and the Brain
Schedule
All talks on Friday will be held in Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
All talks on Saturday will be held in Room 32-141
Friday, January 31st 2014
All talks will be held in Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
9:15 AM
10:45 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
12:30 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:15 PM
Comparative and Superlative Quantifiers: Scope, Comparison Sets, Modes of Comparison
Roumyana Pancheva
USC
Roumyana Pancheva
USC
5:15 PM
6:15 PM
Towards Exact Number: Understanding Exact Equality
and the Successor Function
Veronique Izard
CNRS & Université Paris Descartes
Veronique Izard
CNRS & Université Paris Descartes
7:15 PM
Dinner
TBA
TBA
Saturday, February 1st 2014
All talks will be held in Room 32-141
8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
CANCELLED
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
2:30 PM
Biases in Quantity Estimation - Lessons from Discrimination Tasks
Yonatan Loewenstein
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yonatan Loewenstein
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3:30 PM
Coffee Break
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
Quantities and Quantifiers: Sentence Verification, Weber's Law, and Monotonicity
Yosef Grodzinsky
McGill University
Yosef Grodzinsky
McGill University
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
Dinner
The meeting is funded in part by Canada Research Chairs, through Yosef Grodzinsky’s Chair in Neurolinguistics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.