11/11/2021 Seminari GLiF, a càrrec d'Augustin Vicente
"Thinking for speaking" revisited: a case against semantic representations, a càrrec d'Augustin Vicente (Ikerbasque & University of the Basque Country)
Data: dijous 11 de novembre del 2021
Hora: 12.00 h
Lloc: Sala de reunions 52.737 - 7a planta edifici 52. Roc Boronat - Campus del Poblenou - UPF
Resum:
This talk is (mostly) about the problem of moving from concepts to language. It is a problem that has gone unnoticed, possibly because the problem is less obvious when we posit an intermediate representational system adapted to the expressive needs and constraints of language, which is what has been done (a) in order to account for relativity effects, and (b) in order to explain speech production. Slobin (1996) referred to such level as "thinking for speaking", and Levinson (2003) has called it "semantic representations". However, I explain that, far from solving the mapping problem, positing this intermediate system makes the problem even harder. Consequently, I try to account for attested relativity effects as well as to sketch a model of speech production without resorting to "thinking for speaking".