Jack Rabinovitch presents

Date: 

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 1:30pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

2 Arrow Street, Room 420

Here is the details of Jack's work:

 

What Did I Tell You? Designing Surveys to Collect Cross-Linguistic Data on Speech Reports 

 In this talk, I present the main driving question behind my dissertation: in speech reports, what are the possible semantic contributions of embedded clauses, and how does the (morpho-syntactic) form of the embedded clause affect these contributions? Answering such a question requires a rigorous way of comparing the meanings of speech reports cross-linguistically. In this talk, I propose one way to do this: through a survey which prompts participants to form speech reports across various contexts. This is a work in progress, and I'm happy to hear any suggestions on how to improve the survey!