{"id":13191,"date":"2020-02-10T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13191"},"modified":"2020-02-09T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T01:27:09","slug":"langacq-essl-lab-meeting-2-14-athulya-aravind-and-cindy-torma-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/02\/10\/langacq-essl-lab-meeting-2-14-athulya-aravind-and-cindy-torma-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LangAcq\/ESSL Lab Meeting 2\/14: Athulya Aravind and Cindy Torma (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>? Athulya Aravind and Cindy Torma<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Decomposing <em>?b<\/em><em>oth<\/em><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, February 14th, 2pm - 3pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D831 (8th Floor Conference Room)<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition trajectories of semantically complex quantifiers can be a fruitful window\u00a0into understanding the primitives and construction principles involved in natural language quantification. As a case study, we investigate the acquisition of the English quantifier\u00a0<em>both<\/em>, which involves (i) universal quantification and (ii) a duality presupposition. We examine 2-and-3-year-olds&#8217; understanding of\u00a0<em>both<\/em>\u00a0given an understanding of universal quantification and number knowledge, probed using the corresponding expressions\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>two<\/em>. I&#8217;d like to discuss some preliminary results, where it looks like children hypothesize candidate meanings for\u00a0<em>both\u00a0<\/em>that<em>\u00a0<\/em>comprise only\u00a0a subset of its component meanings or where the pieces are assembled in non-adult ways.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:? Athulya Aravind and Cindy Torma Title:\u00a0Decomposing ?both Time:\u00a0Friday, February 14th, 2pm - 3pm Location: 32-D831 (8th Floor Conference Room) The acquisition trajectories of semantically complex quantifiers can be a fruitful window\u00a0into understanding the primitives and construction principles involved in natural language quantification. As a case study, we investigate the acquisition of the English quantifier\u00a0both, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}