Semantics & Pragmatics
Dr. Dimitrios Skordos‘ (Linguistics) main research interests include language development, logical and pragmatic inference in children, the psychology of language more generally, as well as events, space and motion in language.
Dr. David Liebesman’s (Philosophy/Linguistics) research lies primarily in philosophy of language and metaphysics.
About
Semantic & Pragmatic Developmental Group
Our main research question is how children learn the meanings of words and phrases in their language and how they use their language-learning abilities to think about and understand context and the intentions of others. Projects in the group include the acquisition of quantifiers and logical connectives as well as the acquisition of spatial terms and motion event and how that interacts with memory and non-linguistic cognition.
Faculty: Dimitrios Skordos
Students: Cheryl Iwanchuk, Rowan Sali