While some adults see implicit meaning in sentences, children can miss it. Two linguists explain how this can happen, and why it matters in communication. theconversation.com/children-cant-… Western News

Congratulations to Dr Yasu Sudo and Prof Richard Breheny for receiving £349,350 in funding from the AHRC-DFG Funding Initiative in the Humanities for their project "Interactions between Dynamic Effects and Alternative-Based Inferences in the Study of Meaning”

We are advertising for a 3-year post-doc on the IDEAlISM project. Details of the post are here: atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/… Details of the project are here: dynamicalternatives.researches.org.uk

Two further postdoc positions in semantics at HHU. linguistlist.org/issues/33.1414/ get in touch if you have any questions and please share with whoever might be interested. Thanks!

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