Project A4:
Semantics and Intuition

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Project leader

Jürgen Pafel, Prof. Dr.
Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik
Universität Stuttgart 
Postfach 10 60 37 
D-70049 Stuttgart
e-mail: Juergen.Pafel@ilg.uni-stuttgart.de 
Tel. +49/0711/121-3137
Fax. +49/0711/121-3141

Other staff

Oliver Bott
Universität Tübingen 
SFB 441 
Nauklerstr. 35 
D - 72074 Tübingen 
e-mail: oliver.bott@student.uni-tuebingen.de 
Tel.: 07071 - 2977150


Andreas Konietzko
Universität Tübingen
SFB 441 
Nauklerstr. 35 
D - 72074 Tübingen
e-mail: andreaskonietzko@gmx.de  
Tel.: 07071 - 2977150 


Katrin Petodnig
Universität Tübingen
SFB 441
Nauklerstr. 35
D - 72074 Tübingen
e-mail: kpetodnig@yahoo.de 
Tel.: 07071 - 2977150 


Janina Radó 
Universität Tübingen 
SFB 441 
Nauklerstr. 35 
D - 72074 Tübingen 
e-mail: janina@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de 
Tel.: 07071 - 2977150


Tanja Werner
Universität Tübingen 
SFB 441 
Nauklerstr. 35 
D - 72074 Tübingen
e-mail: tanjawerner@gmx.de  
Tel.: 07071 - 2977150 

 



Project Outline

Research in semantics is based to a high degree upon intuitive judgements made by native (and sometimes non-native) speakers. The project A4 is concerned with the nature, function and reliability of these semantic judgements, as well as of the semantic intuitions underlying them. The project has three main goals: First, we will present an overview of the different kinds of speaker judgements that are used in semantic research. What are the characteristics of these judgments and how are they related to other methods of data collection? Our second goal is methodological. Can intuitive speaker judgments fulfill the same methodological standards as experimental methods? How good can speaker judgments be and how should they be collected? Finally our theoretical interest is to get a better understanding of semantic intuitions and their linguistic status.

Project Proposal (German)
Report 2004
New Proposal 2005 - 2008


Publications and manuscripts


Some of our web-experiments


question-answer-sequences
contradictions


running experiments


plausibility judgements

sentence completions

grammaticality judgement 1

grammaticality judgement 2


Original design by Laura Kallmeyer and Christoph Singer. Maintained by Oliver Bott. Last updated 6.07.2005