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What we Know about Knowing: Presuppositions generated by factive verbs influence downstream neural processing
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Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction
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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 study examined the flexibility of children's interpretation of conjunction. Specifically, when two predicates that can apply simultaneously to a single individual are conjoined in the scope of a plural definite (The bears are big and white), conjunction receives a Boolean, intersective interpretation. However, when the conjoined predicates cannot apply simultaneously to an individual (The bears are big and small), conjunction receives a weaker ‘split’ interpretation (Krifka, 1990; Lasersohn, 1995; Winter, 1996). Our experiments reveal that preschool-aged children are sensitive to both intersective and split interpretations, and can use their lexical and world knowledge of the relevant predicates in order to select an appropriate reading.
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children; language acquisition; linguistic analysis (linguistics); XXXXXX - Unknown
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URL: http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:44793 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000917000137
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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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The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature : evidence from Greek
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Developmental insights into gappy phenomena : comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness
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Testing theories of temporal inferences : evidence from child language
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More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in nonmonotonic environments
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 28; 690-710 ; 2163-5951 (2018)
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Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral : experimental data
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On the role of alternatives in the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese
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Testing the QUD approach : children's comprehension of scopally ambiguous questions
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Asymmetry in presupposition projection: The case of conjunction
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 27; 504-524 ; 2163-5951 (2017)
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Children's knowledge of free choice inferences and scalar implicatures
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Born in the USA : a comparison of modals and nominal quantifiers in child language
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Scalar implicatures versus presuppositions : the view from acquisition
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