{"id":13744,"date":"2020-10-05T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13744"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:23:45","slug":"experimentalist-meeting-10-9-jad-wehbe-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/10\/05\/experimentalist-meeting-10-9-jad-wehbe-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimentalist Meeting 10\/9 - Jad Wehbe (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Jad Wehbe (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Preschoolers&#8217; comprehension of the interaction of intonation and illocutionary force (work with Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz):<br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Friday, October 9th, 2pm - 3:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This study investigates preschoolers&#8217; ability to infer the force of speakers&#8217; intended speech acts when they don&#8217;t match the clause type uttered, by focusing on rising declaratives in English. Prior work shows that infants are sensitive to clause type and intonational distinctions, but doesn&#8217;t address speech act interpretation. We show that children deploy a sophisticated understanding of pragmatics and prosody to uncover the intended illocutionary force of speakers&#8217; utterances. This is done via the results of a comprehension task in which children helped a puppet place animals in workplaces throughout a village. In each trial, the puppet either made a statement about where an animal works, in which case the child had to place the animal in the corresponding location, or the puppet forgot and asked a question, in which case the child had to check a book containing information about each animal&#8217;s workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jad Wehbe (MIT) Title: Preschoolers&#8217; comprehension of the interaction of intonation and illocutionary force (work with Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz): Time: Friday, October 9th, 2pm - 3:30pm Abstract: This study investigates preschoolers&#8217; ability to infer the force of speakers&#8217; intended speech acts when they don&#8217;t match the clause type uttered, by [&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-13744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744","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=13744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13760,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions\/13760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}