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The Inclusion of Disjunction in Child Grammar: Evidence from Modal Verbs
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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An Asymmetric Universal in Child Language
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 7 (2003): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 7; 136-148 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 7 (2003): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 7; 136-148 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
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Brass tacks in linguistic theory : innate grammatical principles
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The Early steps of modal and negation interactions : evidence from child Italian
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Solving Learnability Problems in the Acquisition of Semantics
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Solving Learnability Problems in the Acquisition of Semantics
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This paper proposes solutions to two semantic learnability problems that have featured prominently in the literature on language acquisition. Both problems have often been deemed unsolvable for language learners as a matter of logic, and they have accordingly been taken to motivate principles making sure they will not actually arise in the course of language acquisition. One problem concerns the acquisition of ambiguous sentences whose readings are related by entailment. Crain et al. 's (1994) Semantic Subset Principle is intended to preempt the problem by preventing acquisition of the weaker reading before the stronger reading has been acquired. In contrast, we demonstrate that this very order of acquisition becomes feasible in principle if children can exploit non-truth-conditional evidence of various kinds or evidence from sentences containing downward entailing operators. The other learnability problem concerns the potential need for expunction of certain readings of ambiguous sentences from a child's grammar. It has often been assumed that, in the absence of negative evidence, such expunction is impossible, and Wexler and Manzini (1987) posit a Subset Principle to preempt the problematic learning scenario. We argue, however, that if the evidence available to the child includes dialogues, and if listeners are expected to interpret speakers' utterances charitably , then expunction of unavailable readings is possible in principle.
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URL: http://jos.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/ffp002v1 https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffp002
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Experiments on the Role of the Question Under Discussion for Ambiguity Resolution and Implicature Computation in Adults
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 18; 765-777 ; 2163-5951 (2008)
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