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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Theoretical approaches to reference assume that defi
 nite descriptions such as “the candle” are used to refer to a candle which
  is uniquely identifiable relative to a set of entities defined by the sit
 uational context. Thus\, the interpretation of definite descriptions cruci
 ally depends on listeners’ ability to correctly construct this situation-s
 pecific “referential domain”. While there is considerable experimental evi
 dence that listeners are indeed able to use various types of information t
 o construct referential domains in real time\, some evidence seems to sugg
 est that information about common ground is not used for this task. That i
 s\, evidence in the psycholinguistics literature is mixed regarding whethe
 r listeners incorporate the distinction between shared and private informa
 tion in the earliest moments of processing.  In this talk\, Dr. Heller wil
 l review some of these apparently-contradictory results (Keysar et al.\, 2
 000\; Heller et al.\, 2008)\, and argue that they can be explained under a
  novel approach to referential domains. Specifically\, she proposes that i
 nstead of choosing one domain over another\, listeners simultaneously cons
 ider more than one domain\, weighing probabilistically their relative cont
 ribution. Dr. Heller will present data from two experiments in support of 
 this approach\, and discuss the implications for our understanding of refe
 rential domains more generally.  The talk is organized by the GRIPP group.
  GRIPP is an interdisciplinary reading Group to discuss work at the inters
 ection of Reference\, Information structure\, Prosody and Pragmatics (GRIP
 P)\, organized by CRBLM members Aparna Nadig (��ɫTVl SCSD)\, Kris Onishi (
 ��ɫTVl Psychology)\, Michael Wagner (��ɫTVl Linguistics)\, and Meghan Clay
 ards (��ɫTVl SCSD and Linguistics)    Bio:  Daphna Heller received her BA 
 and Master in Linguistics from Tel Aviv University. She received her PhD i
 n Linguistics from Rutgers in 2005\, and then spent a couple of years as a
  post doctoral fellow in Brain & Cognitive Science at the University of Ro
 chester and at the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto. She
  is currently an assistant professor of Linguistics at the University of T
 oronto. Daphna's research focuses on experimental semantics and pragmatics
 \, but is also interested in formal approaches to pragmatics\, and in anyt
 hing concerning Hebrew.
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LOCATION:CA\, Goodman Cancer Research Centre\, Room 501\, 1200 Pine Avenue 
 West
SUMMARY:Common ground and the probabilistic nature of referential domains: 
 Daphna Heller
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