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Human evolution unfolded through a rather distinctive, dynamically constructed ecological niche. The human niche is not only generally terrestrial in habitat, while being flexibly and extensively heterotrophic in food-web connections. It is also defined by semiotically structured and structuring embodied cognitive interfaces, connecting the individual organism with the wider environment. The em...

The paper discusses some issues that arise from research on sign languages in the area of formal semantics. Sign languages provide a unique standpoint to investigate semantic phenomena like donkey anaphora, indexical reference shift, and tense. Moreover, they pose a challenge for semantic theories, since movement verbs display gradient properties (semi-continuous variations with semantic import...

Recent arguments for relativist semantic theories have centered on the phenomenon of “faultless disagreement.” This paper offers independent motivation for such theories, based on the interpretation of predicates of personal taste in certain attitude contexts and presuppositional constructions. It is argued that the correct interpretation falls out naturally from a relativist theory, but requir...

We first replicated the language-familiarity effect for voice discrimination and found better voice discrimination in familiar languages. However, when listeners were not cued to listen for changes, both English and Spanish speakers exhibited greater change deafness in their familiar language. Results suggest that lexical/semantic attention in a familiar language and increased indexical process...

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Abstract Typicality arguments attempt to use the Copernican Principle draw conclusions about cosmos and presently unknown conscious beings within it, including extraterrestrial intelligences (ETI). The most notorious is Doomsday Argument, which purports constrain humanity's future from its current lifespan alone. These rest on a likelihood calculation that penalizes models in proportion number ...

Several languages, including Amharic (Semitic; Leslau 1995), Engenni (Kwa; Thomas 1978) and possibly Aghem (Bantu; Hyman 1979) display a curious pattern in which an indexical pronoun such as ‘I’ or ‘you’ can refer to the speaker or hearer of a reported speech act rather than of the actual discourse (see also Hale & Platero 1996 and Speas 1999 for related facts in Navajo). The following is an ex...