LiMe

Linguistic Meaning Lab

What we do

At the LiMe Lab we investigate all facets of linguistic meaning, from its most deterministic aspects to the fleeting meanings that arise during conversation. We use linguistic theory for hypothesis generation and experimental, corpus and computational methods to test such hypotheses. Our work spans the fields of formal semantics, pragmatics, syntax, psycholinguistics and cognitive science more generally.

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Interested in the study of Linguistic Meaning? We are always looking for new talented graduate students and undergraduate research assistants! For more information, check the Join LiMe section.

News
31 October 2025

Helena will give an invited talk at the ILST Seminar on semantic adaptation and its role in pragmatic reasoning.

17 September 2025

Yifan Wu presented on how first-person disagreements update the standard of precision, both up and down, at XPrag 2025

31 July 2025

New paper by Yifan Wu and Helena on meaning adaptation in the discourse dynamics of imprecision appeared in the Proceedings of CogSci 2025. Yifan presented her work.

21 May 2025

Yifan Wu presented her poster on first-person disagreements and bi-directional precision adaptation at SALT 35.

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