{"id":13072,"date":"2019-12-02T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2019-12-02T00:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:55:54","slug":"experimentalist-meeting-12-6-elise-newman-yadav-gowda-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/12\/02\/experimentalist-meeting-12-6-elise-newman-yadav-gowda-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimentalist Meeting 12\/6 - Elise Newman (MIT) and Yadav Gowda (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Elise Newman (MIT) and Yadav Gowda (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Children can \u0091even\u0092: the learning trajectory of an English scalar particle<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Friday, December 6th, 2pm - 3pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>36-156 <strong>(NOTE: This is a a different location than normal!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Kim 2011 argues that children learn \u0091even\u0092 later than \u0091only\u0092, showing no evidence of learning \u0091even\u0092 in the 4-5 year old range. We argue that Kim\u0092s results are unreliable due to flaws in her experimental design. We show that controlling for those factors reveals evidence of learning in children ages 4-5: children ages 4-5 show considerably more adult-like comprehension of \u0091even\u0092 than 3 year olds, with justifications that suggest they recognize the need for scalar reasoning in interpreting \u0091even\u0092. In addition to this finding, we report two additional results. First, children show two types of non-adult like behavior, one of which looks like guessing (and is unstable, disappearing by age 6), and the other of which co-occurs with justifications that indicate scalar reasoning (and is stable through age 6). This suggests that there is a learning space children consider when hypothesizing meanings for \u0091even\u0092. Second, there appears to be somewhat of a polarity effect: children show higher rates of adult-like behavior in negative environments than positive environments. Evidence from child production of \u0091even\u0092 as well as child-directed use of \u0091even\u0092 suggests that the latter finding may be a frequency effect in the input; adults produce higher rates of negative \u0091even\u0092 than positive \u0091even\u0092.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Elise Newman (MIT) and Yadav Gowda (MIT) Title: Children can \u0091even\u0092: the learning trajectory of an English scalar particle Time: Friday, December 6th, 2pm - 3pm Location: 36-156 (NOTE: This is a a different location than normal!) Abstract: Kim 2011 argues that children learn \u0091even\u0092 later than \u0091only\u0092, showing no evidence of learning \u0091even\u0092 [&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-13072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072","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=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13081,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions\/13081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}