• Organizational meeting

• Dave Barner (UC San Diego, psychology)
  Infinite thoughts from finite means: How children discover the logic of counting

• Roman Feiman (UC San Diego, psychology)
  Shared and distinct mechanisms behind the strengthened meanings of numbers, "some", and free choice disjunctions

• Alessandro Caiola (University of Rome La Sapienza and University of Rome 3, linguistics)
  Lexical underspecification and processing of light verb constructions

• Paolo Santorio (UC San Diego, philosophy)
  Free choice in unexpected places: experimental evidence and predictive algorithms

• Leon Bergen (UC San Diego, linguistics)
  Three ways to solve the symmetry problem
  
  ABSTRACT: The symmetry problem (Fox 2007, Katzir 2007) poses a challenge for a broad range of pragmatic theories. Several groups have proposed related solutions to the problem: total (Katzir 2007, Fox & Katzir 2011) and graded (Bergen, Levy, & Goodman 2016) elimination of alternatives on the basis of complexity or cost. Recently, Romoli (2013, personal communication) has introduced several instances of the symmetry problem which cannot be solved through complexity or cost alone. We show that these apparent counterexamples can be resolved through two symmetry-breaking principles, informativity and Bayesian Occam's razor (MacKay 2003). These principles follow automatically from the model proposed in Bergen et al. (2016), requiring no changes to this model.

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• Melissa Fusco (Columbia University, philosophy)
  Agential Free Choice and the Unity of Modals

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• Michela Ippolito (Univ of Toronto, linguistics)
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  Date TBA (likely in April)

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