{"id":10448,"date":"2017-10-02T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2017-10-02T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:32:07","slug":"essllacqlab-105-emma-nguyen-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/10\/02\/essllacqlab-105-emma-nguyen-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSL\/LAcqLab 10\/5 - Emma Nguyen + William Snyder (UConn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/emmanguyenling.wordpress.com\/\">Emma Nguyen<\/a> (UConn) &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.uconn.edu\/snyder\/\">William Snyder<\/a> (UConn)<br clear='none'\/> <br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> It&#8217;s hard to coerce: a unified account of Raising-Past-Experiencers and Passives in Child English<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong> Thursday, October 5, 5-6PM<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D831<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nSnyder & Hyams (2015) adopt an idea from Gehrke & Grillo (2009) to account for children&#8217;s delay of non-actional passives: the problem is children&#8217;s inability to perform &#8220;semantic coercion&#8221; that non-actional verbs require before passivization. Orfitelli (2012) finds a tight correspondence between any given child&#8217;s ability to comprehend some non-actional passives and the same child&#8217;s ability to comprehend raising-past-experiencers like &#8220;John seems to Mary to be nice&#8221;. Yet, it is unclear how the idea of semantic coercion can extend to raising-past-experiencers.<\/p>\n<p>Pinker (1989) argues the &#8220;core&#8221; of the English passive is the verb&#8217;s dyad of Agent-Patient theta-roles, with counterparts in other fields, like Perceiver-Perceptum. We propose that the locus of development is the ability to coerce a theta-role like Perceiver\/Possessor into Agent. If a similar type of semantic coercion is necessary for raising-past-experiencers, children are delayed with both raising-past-experiencers and non-actional passives because they are late to master semantic coercion. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Emma Nguyen (UConn) &amp; William Snyder (UConn) Title: It&#8217;s hard to coerce: a unified account of Raising-Past-Experiencers and Passives in Child English Date\/Time: Thursday, October 5, 5-6PM Location: 32-D831 Abstract: Snyder &#038; Hyams (2015) adopt an idea from Gehrke &#038; Grillo (2009) to account for children&#8217;s delay of non-actional passives: the problem is children&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10454,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}