{"id":12855,"date":"2019-10-16T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:46:29","slug":"experimentalist-meeting-10-18-sherry-yong-chen-and-filipe-kobayashi-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/10\/16\/experimentalist-meeting-10-18-sherry-yong-chen-and-filipe-kobayashi-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimentalist meeting 10\/18 - Filipe Hisao Kobayashi and Sherry Yong Chen (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Filipe Hisao Kobayashi and Sherry Yong Chen (MIT)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title<\/strong>:\u00a0Comprehending and: Development Path of English Conjunction in Child Language<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time<\/strong>: Friday, October 18th, 2pm - 3pm<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: 32-D461<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And<\/em> presents a challenging case for language learning because of its abstract meaning and cross-categorial flexibility. Nevertheless, previous studies report that even 2-year-olds use and productively in various syntactic environments (Sentence-and, VP-and, &amp; NP-and), leaving open the possibility that <em>and<\/em> is acquired as an intrinsically cross-categorial operator.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this on-going project, we exploits scope interaction with quantifiers to distinguish S-<em>and<\/em> and NP-<em>and:<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1) Somebody has a pineapple and somebody has a donut. (adult: and &gt; somebody)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2) Somebody has a pineapple and a donut. (adult: somebody &gt; and)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on a recent study by Koring et al, we used an act-out paradigm to test children\u0092s comprehension of sentences like (1) and (2). We present preliminary results suggesting that (i) children as young as 3-years-old have adult-like understanding of S-<em>and<\/em>, but their performance on NP-<em>and<\/em> is less adult-like; (ii) For NP-and specifically, children\u0092s performance differs in the adult-true vs adult-false scenarios; (iii) there is no clear improvement for both <em>and<\/em>s from 3-year-olds to 5-year-olds. The difference between our results and Koring et al\u0092s results will be discussed.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Filipe Hisao Kobayashi and Sherry Yong Chen (MIT) Title:\u00a0Comprehending and: Development Path of English Conjunction in Child Language Time: Friday, October 18th, 2pm - 3pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: And presents a challenging case for language learning because of its abstract meaning and cross-categorial flexibility. Nevertheless, previous studies report that even 2-year-olds use and productively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12871,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}