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All together now: disentangling semantics and pragmatics with together in child and adult language ...
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The way in which an event is packaged linguistically can be informative about the number of participants in the event and the nature of their participation. At times, however, a sentence is ambiguous, and pragmatic information weighs in to favor one interpretation over another. Whereas adults may readily know how to pick up on such cues to meaning, children – who are generally naïve to such pragmatic nuances – may diverge and access a broader range of interpretations, or one disfavored by adults. A number of cases come to us from a now well established body of research on scalar implicatures and scopal ambiguity. Here, we complement this previous work with a previously uninvestigated example of the semantic-pragmatic divide in language development arising from the interpretation of sentences with pluralities and together. Sentences such as Two boys lifted a block (together) allow for either a Collective or a Distributive interpretation (one pushing event vs. two spatio temporally coordinated events). We show ...
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General semantics; Pragmatics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t3wq05ss https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/esploro/outputs/acceptedManuscript/991031550243604646
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All Together Now: Disentangling Semantics and Pragmatics with Together in Child and Adult Language
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Collectivity, distributivity, and the interpretation of numerical expressions in child and adult language ...
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Collectivity, Distributivity, and the Interpretation of Plural Numerical Expressions in Child and Adult Language
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Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction should everyone adopt? A new take on a classic developmental puzzle
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In: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development ; 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00932545 ; 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov 2012, Boston, United States. pp.1-12 (2012)
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The mental timeline in discourse organization and processing
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Resolving Wh/quantifier ambiguities: a psycholinguitic [sic] approach
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What makes pair list answers available: An experimental approach
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In: NELS 41 Proceedings ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00929986 ; NELS 41 Proceedings, Oct 2010, University of Pennsylvania, United States (2010)
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