Final Report Summary - SEMEXP (Psycho-semantics: new data for formal semantics models, stronger frameworks for experimental studies)
The project offers methods to study semantic phenomena in a systematic theoretical and empirical fashion. Many linguistic phenomena seem to be complex, and it is tempting to conclude that they are the exclusive domain of natural languages, the prime vector of subtle and complex communication. Yet, in our efforts to characterize and document these phenomena well, we have also found that many of the hallmarks of complex semantics can be found in human non-linguistic communication, and even in non-human animal communication.