LEC talk, 14th February, Catriona Silvey
By Kenny | February 6, 2012
Catriona Silvey, who is a 1st year PhD student in the LEC, is giving the next LEC talk. Room G06, DSB, from 11:00-12:30 on Tuesday February 14th.
Talk title is “Context effects on meaning space structure”, Catriona says “I will argue that the conceptual structure of a given meaning space is not determined solely by perceptible features of the meanings, but is also influenced by factors in the context of language learning and use. These factors can cue learners to weight features unevenly, resulting in a discrepancy between the perceptible features of the meaning space and the features considered relevant by the languge user. This in turn can influence the conceptual structure of the meaning space and the structure of the language. I will present results from an iterated learning experiment that explores this hypothesis.”