Ira Noveck

New Research: Taking stock of an idiom’s background assumptions: an alternative relevance theoretic account #Psychology #Psych frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

@RadLacina @KissineMikhail This does not address the classic "Some dogs are mammals" case; You would need to tell it that "All daxes are dumbos" before asking the test question. Sorry for multiple replies :-)

I guess many people already tried this, but it is interesting that unlike around 30% of participants in traditional experimental pragmatic studies ChatGPT can’t find an interpretation under which ´Some dogs are mammals’ is false @Irastamon #xprag #implicature

@RadLacina But you didn't specify that in fact all daxes are dumbos

@KissineMikhail For the record, it's more like half

@wisekaren 'Squib' is occasionally used in academic journals (and in my mind linguistic journals) to describe a type of short article that (the author considers to be) potentially impactful. Some of my favorite pieces are squibs. That said, I associated these with the firework meaning.

The word SQUIB came up in a puzzle I was solving this morning, and I had to look it up: "a short humorous or satiric writing or speech; a short news item." I think that would be a good name for a website/social media site.

@DannyBate4 So, another way to put it is that “both” provides an upper bound (not more than two) that “two” doesn’t?

Maltese has two very different words for 'two': tnejn and żewġ. They're not interchangeable, as żewġ must be used with a noun that it counts – as in żewġ kotba 'two books'. This restriction may be due to its origins, deriving, via Arabic, from the Greek word zeûgos 'pair, yoke'.

mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

@OnSophiaStreet I’m there. So far it feels like that moment early at a work party where people are eyeing each other but not interacting much. But it does have the feel of Twitter. I do miss the political stuff.

Who is trying out Mastodon? Please let me know, I will look for you there!

@jasondhorowitz @NewYorker A writer friend sent me your piece, undoubtedly b/c I too grew up with the Mets (played LL in Flushing Meadow next to Shea), have kids who I raised abroad (France) & with whom I shared my love of baseball & the Mets. Don't worry, Luca will get it. OTOH, if they win next year...

For the @NewYorker I wrote about the struggle to raise my son as a Mets fan out in Rome, where I worry the quick-hit highlights era is failing to prepare him for the heartbreak that comes with being a Mets lifer — and maybe a son — in any era. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

@sergioten Don’t mean to sound snarky (I’m not a big enough football fan to go all out for it but I also know a lot of people boycotting it this time).

@sergioten Not watching it?

@NGotzner @Logic_Cognition @LorenzoScottB @iranoveck@fediscience.org

How do you choose a server on mastodon?

@NGotzner @Logic_Cognition @LorenzoScottB There’s fediscience

@jasonintrator What quotes

@VBambini conscience

@VBambini Elon Musk is unbearable and unpredictable… I don’t see people of good conscious staying here for too long.

Ok, I think this time I did it correctly for real. I'm joining the herd at Mastadon. @iranoveck@fediscience.org

@VBambini For the record, I asked an artist friend Didier Cailly to come up with (to imagine) a cover after describing the contents of the book.

The beautiful cover art @Irastamon chose for his 2018 book shows that behaving pragmatically is intertwined with mind-reading. Do you have new evidence on the key relationship btw pragmatics & ToM? Then submit to my #IPrA2023 panel! Deadline November 8 drive.google.com/file/d/1wdzpjJ…

@dannagal Wrong: How the Right gets subjected to misinformation

Friends, before you all jump away, I need your input. Final revisions of book manuscript heading to editor next week (pub date fall 2023). The book will be called "Wrong" but need help on the subtitle. For context, here's what the book is about: