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Leibniz Dream: Children's comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Hungarian ...
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Leibniz Dream: Children's comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian. ...
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Children's production of quantifiers as sentence initial subjects in German and Italian ...
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'Believe' is Strong but Subjective: Experimental Evidence from Hedging
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 25 (2021): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25; 497-514 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 25 (2021): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25; 497-514 ; 2629-6055 (2021)
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Verum accent IS VERUM, but not always focus
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 6, No 1 (2021): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 188–202 ; 2473-8689 (2021)
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Comprehension of the Presupposition Trigger Ye "Also" by Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders
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In: Frontiers in Psychology ; 11 (2020). - 570453. - Frontiers Research Foundation. - eISSN 1664-1078 (2020)
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Testing theories of plural meanings
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Plural morphology in English is associated with a multiplicity inference. For example, “Emily fed giraffes” is typically interpreted to mean that Emily fed multiple giraffes. It has long been observed that this inference disappears in downward-entailing linguistic environments, such as in the scope of negation. For example, “Emily didn't feed giraffes” does not merely suggest that she didn't feed multiple giraffes, but rather that she didn't feed any. There are three main approaches to explaining this puzzle: the first proposes that the plural is ambiguous, and invokes a preference for stronger meanings; the second derives multiplicity inferences as implicatures; and the third provides a homogeneity-based account. These different approaches can all account for the interpretation of the plural across upward- and downward-entailing environments. They differ, however, in what they predict for three further aspects of the plural: the status of positive and negative plural sentences in singular contexts, children's acquisition of plural meanings, and the relationship between plural meanings and scalar implicatures. In this paper, we report on three experiments investigating adults' and preschool-aged children's interpretation of plural morphology in English. The experiments reveal that participants distinguish positive and negative plural sentences presented in singular contexts, and that adults assign a different status to these positive and negative sentences. It is also observed that children, unlike adults, tend to accept underinformative positive plural sentences in singular contexts — in parallel with their behavior on standard scalar implicatures — while they are relatively more adult-like when it comes to negative plural sentences in the same contexts, showing a tendency to reject the negative sentences. We discuss how the findings of the three experiments are expected on a scalar implicature approach to multiplicity inferences, and the open challenges they pose for the ambiguity and homogeneity approaches.
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ambiguity; linguistics; morphology; multiplicity (mathematics); semantics; XXXXXX - Unknown
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:57075 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104307
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Reluctant Acceptance of the Literal Truth: Eye Tracking in the Covered Box Paradigm
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 20 (2016): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20; 61-78 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 20 (2016): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20; 61-78 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
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Scalar implicatures processing: slowly accepting the truth (literally)
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 19 (2015): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19; 573-590 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 19 (2015): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19; 573-590 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
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Homogeneity or implicature : an experimental investigation of free choice
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Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental investigation of free choice
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 29; 706-726 ; 2163-5951 (2019)
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On children's variable success with scalar inferences : insights from disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier
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Developmental insights into gappy phenomena : comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness
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Scalar implicatures versus presuppositions : the view from acquisition
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Presupposition projection from the scope of none : universal, existential, or both?
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Presupposition projection from the scope of None: Universal, existential, or both?
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 26; 754-774 ; 2163-5951 (2016)
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Existential presupposition projection from none? : an experimental investigation
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Presuppositions vs. Scalar Implicatures in Aquisition
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In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2015)
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Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures : evidence from acquisition
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