{"id":3729,"date":"2019-02-24T18:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2019-03-03T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T11:55:08","slug":"lira-session-shane-steinert-threlkeld-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/2019\/02\/lira-session-shane-steinert-threlkeld-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRa Session: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shane.st\/\">Shane Steinert-Threlkeld<\/a> (ILLC)<\/p>\n<p>Date and Time: Thursday, March&nbsp;7th 2019, 16:30-18:00<\/p>\n<p>Venue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<b>Explaining Semantic Universals<\/b>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract. <\/em>Semantic universals are properties of meaning that are attested in all of the languages of the world. \u00a0In this talk, I develop an explanation for why such universals arise: expressions satisfying them are easier to learn than those that do not. \u00a0Using techniques from machine learning, I show that this answer can provide a unified explanation of universals in three disparate linguistic domains, encompassing both function and content words: quantifiers, responsive predicates, and color terms. \u00a0I conclude by canvassing ongoing work on this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (ILLC)<br \/>\nDate and Time: Thursday, March&nbsp;7th 2019, 16:30-18:00<br \/>\nVenue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.<br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0Explaining Semantic Universals.<br \/>\nAbstract. Semantic universals are properties of meaning that are attested in all of the languages of the world. \u00a0In this talk, I develop an explanation for why such universals arise: expressions satisfying them are easier to learn [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}