{"id":15957,"date":"2023-11-06T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2023\/11\/06\/linglunch-11-9-vina-tsakali-2\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:14:39","slug":"linglunch-11-9-vina-tsakali-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/11\/06\/linglunch-11-9-vina-tsakali-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 11\/9 - Vina Tsakali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Vina Tsakali<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Interpretation of complex- and simple-Or\u00a0in adult and child Greek<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, November 9th, 12:30pm - 2pm<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><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disjunctive particles have been argued to differ cross- and intra-linguistically as to whether they are obligatorily exclusive or not (Szabolcsi 2001, Aloni 2016). The current project examines the differences between the simple (<strong>i<\/strong>=Or)\u00a0and the complex forms (<strong>i-i<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>ite-ite<\/strong>=Either-Or)\u00a0of the disjunctive operators in Greek.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results of four online questionnaires on adult Greek speakers showed no significant effect of the disjunction type suggesting that Greek adult speakers do not perceive one of the two types as obligatorily exclusive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The development of the disjunction in Greek tested via a forced choice picture matching test provides evidence that children interpret both disjunction types inclusively (and probably conjunctively) until the age of 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Vina Tsakali Title: Interpretation of complex- and simple-Or\u00a0in adult and child Greek Time: Thursday, November 9th, 12:30pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Disjunctive particles have been argued to differ cross- and intra-linguistically as to whether they are obligatorily exclusive or not (Szabolcsi 2001, Aloni 2016). The current project examines the differences between the simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15959,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions\/15959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}