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SUMMARY:Masoud Jasbi, Young Language Science Scholar, University of California, 
	Davis
DESCRIPTION:“How to Win the Debate: Nativism and Empiricism in the Acqui
	sition of Logical Words”\n\nThis talk revisits the longstanding debate b
	etween nativism and empiricism through a novel lens from the philosophy 
	of science\, alongside empirical data on children's acquisition of disju
	nction and negation as case studies. Masoud Jasbi proposes that nativism
	 and empiricism can be understood as scientific “stances”. He defines "l
	ogical nativism" as the stance that logical concepts such as negation\, 
	conjunction\, and disjunction are innate and part of the language facult
	y. In contrast\, “logical empiricism" is the stance that such concepts a
	re learned and abstracted from experience using domain-general learning 
	mechanisms. Adopting an empiricist stance\, He presents experimental\, c
	orpus\, and statistical modeling evidence on children's acquisition of d
	isjunction\, suggesting that a key nativist constraint on its semantics 
	need not be innate but can be learned through domain-general learning me
	chanisms. Then he takes a nativist stance and present corpus evidence su
	ggesting that contrary to what previous empiricist or constructivist acc
	ounts suggest\, the available evidence is compatible with negation being
	 an innate abstract and context-general concept present from early child
	hood. Summarizing his seemingly contradictory stances\, he argues that v
	iewing nativism and empiricism as scientific stances allows researchers 
	to contribute to both sides of the nativist-empiricist debate in a syste
	matic and coherent manner\, ultimately helping us win the debate!\n\nFor
	 more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-masoud-jasbi-young-lan
	guage-science-scholar-university-of-california-davis/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head></head><body><h2>“How to Win th
	e Debate: Nativism and Empiricism in the Acquisition of Logical Words”</
	h2><p>This talk revisits the longstanding debate between nativism and em
	piricism through a novel lens from the philosophy of science, alongside 
	empirical data on children's acquisition of disjunction and negation as 
	case studies. Masoud Jasbi proposes that nativism and empiricism can be 
	understood as scientific “stances”. He defines "logical nativism" as the
	 stance that logical concepts such as negation, conjunction, and disjunc
	tion are innate and part of the language faculty. In contrast, “logical 
	empiricism" is the stance that such concepts are learned and abstracted 
	from experience using domain-general learning mechanisms. Adopting an em
	piricist stance, He presents experimental, corpus, and statistical model
	ing evidence on children's acquisition of disjunction, suggesting that a
	 key nativist constraint on its semantics need not be innate but can be 
	learned through domain-general learning mechanisms. Then he takes a nati
	vist stance and present corpus evidence suggesting that contrary to what
	 previous empiricist or constructivist accounts suggest, the available e
	vidence is compatible with negation being an innate abstract and context
	-general concept present from early childhood. Summarizing his seemingly
	 contradictory stances, he argues that viewing nativism and empiricism a
	s scientific stances allows researchers to contribute to both sides of t
	he nativist-empiricist debate in a systematic and coherent manner, ultim
	ately helping us win the debate!</p><p>For more details: <a href='https:
	//events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-masoud-jasbi-young-language-science-scholar
	-university-of-california-davis/'>https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-mas
	oud-jasbi-young-language-science-scholar-university-of-california-davis/
	</a></p></body></html>
LOCATION:102 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
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