Two groups of monolingual, native English-speaking listeners were trained to identify the voices of ten German-English bilingual talkers. One group of listeners learned to identify the voices from English stimuli only, while the other group learned to identify the talkers from German stimuli only. After four days of training, both groups of listeners were asked to identify the same talkers from...

We report on our experience with rapid prototyping for a new structured domain of bounded-length strings, automatically generating propagator source code from an extended indexical specification.

Properly understood, content internalism is the thesis that any difference between the representational contents of two individuals’ mental states reduces to a difference in those individuals’ intrinsic properties. Some of the strongest arguments against internalism turn on the possibility for two “doppelgangers” – perfect physical and phenomenal duplicates – to differ with respect to the conte...

This paper argues for a focus on the social meaning of variation, based in a study of stylistic practice. It is common in the study of variation to interpret variables as reflections of speakers’ membership in social categories. Others have argued more recently that variables are associated not with the categories themselves, but with stances and characteristics that constitute those categories...

In this paper we remedy one of the most annoying weaknesses of Lucid and indexical languages in general: the lack of higher-order functions. We describe a simple generalization of the “place-code” approach (as discovered by Ostrum and formalized by Yaghi) which handles programs with functions of arbitrarily high orders; in other words, typed Iswim. A source program P with function definitions (...

This thesis is a general defence of a context-dependent description theory of reference with special regards to indexical reference on the basis of a truth-conditional theory of meaning. It consists of two parts. In the first part, the roots of the Frege-Russell view are laid out and contrasted with various aspects of direct reference theory and the New Theory of Reference. Two description-base...