{"id":12975,"date":"2019-11-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12975"},"modified":"2019-11-11T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T00:27:43","slug":"experimentalist-meeting-11-15-fulang-chen-and-dora-takacs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/11\/12\/experimentalist-meeting-11-15-fulang-chen-and-dora-takacs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimentalist Meeting 11\/15 - Fulang Chen (MIT) and D\u00f3ra Kata Tak\u00e1cs (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Fulang Chen (MIT) and D\u00f3ra Kata Tak\u00e1cs (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Interactin of negation and universal quantification in the grammar of 4-year-olds<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Friday, November 15th, 2pm - 3pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Aravind et al (2017) investigate children\u0092s acquisition of universal quantification (every) and find that 4-year-olds stop saying \u0093Yes\u0094 when they are asked whether (1) is true, given a picture where all but one cowboy is riding a horse (i.e. when there is an extra agent, a cowboy not riding a horse). However, 4-year-olds also start to make quantifier-spreading errors, where they say \u0093No\u0094 to (1) when every cowboy is riding a horse but there is an extra object, a horse not being ridden by a cowboy.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Every cowboy is riding a horse.<\/p>\n<p>In this on-going experiment, we explore the interaction of negation and universal quantification in the grammar of 4-year-olds by asking them whether a sentence like (2) is true when they are given a picture where there is an extra agent (e.g. a picture with three giraffes each drinking a milkshake and a giraffe not drinking a milkshake) or an extra object (e.g. a picture with three giraffes each drinking a milkshake and a milkshake not being drunk by a giraffe).<\/p>\n<p>(2) This is a picture where not every giraffe is drinking a milkshake.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary results replicate Aravind et al\u0092s (2017) findings, suggesting that negation does not interact with universal quantification in a way that prevents 4-year-olds from making quantifier-spreading errors.<\/p>\n<p>We propose that not and every are two independent, scope-taking elements in the grammar of 4-year-olds. To flesh out the syntactic and semantic properties of negation and universal quantification, we will address two theories of quantifier-spreading, Roeper et al (2005) and Denic and Chemla (2018), and discuss modifications need to be made to accommodate the preliminary results in our experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Fulang Chen (MIT) and D\u00f3ra Kata Tak\u00e1cs (MIT) Title: Interactin of negation and universal quantification in the grammar of 4-year-olds Time: Friday, November 15th, 2pm - 3pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Aravind et al (2017) investigate children\u0092s acquisition of universal quantification (every) and find that 4-year-olds stop saying \u0093Yes\u0094 when they are asked whether (1) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12975"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}