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In today’s world, we are continuously faced with a flood of information from many channels. A fundamental step for navigating this information stream is distinguishing objective, factual information from subjective opinions.  In this talk, I will discuss a series of psycholinguistic experiments from my lab investigating the comprehension of subjective, opinion-conveying adjectives (e.g. tasty, funny, frightening, […]

The standard answer to this question is that sign languages are iconic because they can be, as visual-manual systems. But knowing that sign languages are iconic does not explain how […]

The principle of compositionality says roughly that the meaning of a complex syntactic phrase is determined by the meanings of its constituent parts. When linguists seek compositional analyses of linguistic […]