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View article: Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian
Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian Open
Studies show that adults interpret simple forms of disjunction (The mouse carried an apple or an orange) inclusively (The mouse carried one, possibly both) or exclusively (The mouse carried one but not both), while they generally interpret…
View article: Does hearing “and” help children understand “or”? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian
Does hearing “and” help children understand “or”? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian Open
Children are known to derive more implicatures when the required alternative is made salient through contrast or when it is made contextually relevant through a story or a Question Under Discussion. We investigated the exclusivity implicat…
View article: Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian
Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian Open
Studies show that adults interpret simplex disjunction ("The mouse carried an apple or anorange") inclusively ('The mouse carried one, possibly both') or exclusively ('The mouse carried one butnot both'), while they generally interpret com…
View article: The role of definiteness in ad hoc implicatures
The role of definiteness in ad hoc implicatures Open
This study investigates how ad-hoc implicatures and the definiteness presupposition of the definite determiner ‘the’ interact. Using a Truth Value Judgment Task (Crain & Thornton 2000), we examine whether English-speaking adults interpret …
View article: A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction
A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction Open
Our study explores whether there is a conjunctive default in the interpretation of disjunction, focusing on Romanian children’s and adults’ understanding of nonce functional words. We investigate how participants interpret novel connectors…
View article: Coloring disjunction in child Romanian
Coloring disjunction in child Romanian Open
Romanian children have been shown to rarely interpret the complex disjunction sau…sau ‘either...or’ (as in sau trenul sau barca ‘either the train or the boat’) exclusively (that is, as ‘only one, not both’) in Truth Value Judgment Tasks. I…
View article: Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian Open
According to Horn’s (1984) Principle of Division of Pragmatic Labor, marked forms should have marked meanings. We investigate differences in the interpretation of two prosodically distinct forms of the disjunction sau in Romanian (‘A sau B…
View article: Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji: Inferences of co-, pro-, and post-text emoji
Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji: Inferences of co-, pro-, and post-text emoji Open
Emoji symbols are widely used in online communication, particularly in instant messaging and on social media platforms. Existing research draws comparisons between the functions of emoji and those of gestures, with recent work extending a …
View article: Social media use by young people with language disorders: a scoping review
Social media use by young people with language disorders: a scoping review Open
YP with language disorders use social media for social purposes. However, co-designed research into what YP with language disorders perceive their social media needs to be is urgently needed. How to support YP with language disorders to us…
View article: Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian
Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian Open
Studies show that adults interpret simplex disjunction ("The mouse carried an apple or anorange") inclusively ('The mouse carried one, possibly both') or exclusively ('The mouse carried one butnot both'), while they generally interpret com…
View article: Do speech–language therapists support young people with communication disability to use social media? A mixed methods study of professional practices
Do speech–language therapists support young people with communication disability to use social media? A mixed methods study of professional practices Open
Background Social media is increasingly used by young people, including those with communication disability. To date, though, little is known about how speech–language therapists (SLTs) support the social media use of young people with com…
View article: Children’s Interpretation of Sentences Containing Multiple Scalar Terms
Children’s Interpretation of Sentences Containing Multiple Scalar Terms Open
Sentences containing the scalar term “some”, such as “The pig carried some of his rocks”, are usually interpreted as conveying the scalar inference that the pig did not carry all of his rocks. Previous research has reported that when inter…
View article: Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental investigation of free choice
Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental investigation of free choice Open
A sentence containing disjunction in the scope of a possibility modal, such as Angie is allowed to buy the boat or the car, gives rise to the FREE CHOICE inference that Angie can freely choose between the two. This inference poses a well-k…
View article: Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions
Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions Open
Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive The trucks are blue and the negative The trucks aren't blue are both neither true nor false when some of the trucks are blue and some are not, that is, when the gr…
View article: Linguistic inferences without words
Linguistic inferences without words Open
Contemporary semantics has uncovered a sophisticated typology of linguistic inferences, characterized by their conversational status and their behavior in complex sentences. This typology is usually thought to be specific to language and i…
View article: Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language
Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language Open
Sentences involving past tense verbs, such as “My dogs were on the carpet”, tend to give rise to the inference that the corresponding present tense version, “My dogs are on the carpet”, is false. This inference is often referred to as a ce…
View article: Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments
Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments Open
The nature of the semantic contribution of co-speech gestures has been the subject of recent theoretical and experimental investigation. Such gestures have been reported to give rise to cosuppositional inferences that can project out of ce…
View article: The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek
The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek Open
Across languages, plural marking on count nouns typically gives rise to a multiplicity inference, indicating that the noun ranges over sums with a cardinality of 2 or more. Plural marking has also been observed to occur on mass nouns in Gr…
View article: Beyond the scope of acquisition: A novel perspective on the isomorphism effect from Broca’s aphasia
Beyond the scope of acquisition: A novel perspective on the isomorphism effect from Broca’s aphasia Open
Children have been reported to prefer the surface scope or “isomorphic” reading of scopally ambiguous sentences (Musolino 1998, among others). Existing accounts in the literature differ with respect to the proposed source of this isomorphi…
View article: Intervention effects in NPI licensing: A quantitative assessment of the scalar implicature explanation
Intervention effects in NPI licensing: A quantitative assessment of the scalar implicature explanation Open
This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a unive…
View article: Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks
Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks Open
Two main analyses have been proposed to explain how co-speech gestures interact with logical operators. According to the Supplemental analysis (Ebert & Ebert 2014), co-speech gestures have the same semantic status as appositive relativ…
View article: Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction
Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction Open
Previous developmental studies of conjunction have focused on the syntax of phrasal and sentential coordination (Lust, 1977; de Villiers, Tager-Flusberg & Hakuta, 1977; Bloom, Lahey, Hood, Lifter & Fiess, 1980, among others). The present s…
View article: Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral: experimental data
Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral: experimental data Open
Across languages, plural marking on a noun typically conveys that there is more thanone entity in the denotation of the noun. In English, this ‘more than one’ meaning isgenerally regarded as an implicature on top of a ‘semantically unmarke…
View article: On the Role of Alternatives in the Acquisition of Simple and Complex Disjunctions in French and Japanese
On the Role of Alternatives in the Acquisition of Simple and Complex Disjunctions in French and Japanese Open
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View article: English-speaking preschoolers can use phrasal prosody for syntactic parsing
English-speaking preschoolers can use phrasal prosody for syntactic parsing Open
This study tested American preschoolers' ability to use phrasal prosody to constrain their syntactic analysis of locally ambiguous sentences containing noun/verb homophones (e.g., [The baby flies] [hide in the shadows] vs [The baby] [flies…
View article: Hedging arguments
Hedging arguments Open
Hedges such as loosely speaking and sorta indicate a mismatch between what issaid and what is actually meant. As demonstrated by the example in (1), sorta is often used whena speaker doesn’t know a more appropriate word or phrase at the ti…
View article: Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures: Evidence from acquisition
Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures: Evidence from acquisition Open
This paper provides novel experimental evidence for a scalar implicature approach to the plurality inferences that are associated with English plural morphology (Emily fed giraffes -> Emily fed more than one giraffe). Using a Truth Valu…
View article: On the tri-ambiguous status of 'any': The view from child language
On the tri-ambiguous status of 'any': The view from child language Open
This paper examines the monolingual acquisition of the English polarity-sensitive item 'any', and uses evidence from child language acquisition to shed light on two questions that arise from the theoretical semantics literature. First, evi…