{"id":6467,"date":"2014-10-14T05:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2014-10-13T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T03:10:00","slug":"ling-lunch-1016-ayaka-sugawara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/10\/14\/ling-lunch-1016-ayaka-sugawara\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 10\/16 - Ayaka Sugawara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ayakasug\/www\/\">Ayaka Sugawara<\/a> (MIT) (joint work with Martin Hackl and Ken Wexler)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: On acquisition of &#8220;only&#8221;: Question-Answer congruence and scalar presuppositions<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time:Thursday, October 16, 12:30-1:45pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> There is a long-standing puzzle in acquisition of <em>only<\/em> since Crain et al. (1994): children up to age 6 display difficulties understanding sentences with pre-subject only (&#8220;subject-<em>only<\/em>&#8221;, e.g. Only the cat is holding a flag.) while having no difficulty understanding sentences with pre-VP only (&#8220;VP-<em>only<\/em>&#8221;, e.g. <em>The cat is only holding a flag<\/em>.). We note that neither \u0093subject-<em>only<\/em>\u0094 nor &#8220;VP-<em>only<\/em>&#8221; are congruent with a broad question (e.g. <em>What happened?<\/em>), which is typically used to prompt puppet\u0092s answers in experiments in the literature. Instead, they are congruent with different sub-questions, which we hypothesize that listeners must accommodate during comprehension. Our experiments compare children&#8217;s adult-like responses when we use broad questions and their responses when we use sub-questions. The results show that children are sensitive to Question-Answer Congruence (QAC) and support the idea that accommodation of sub-questions of <em>What happened?<\/em> plays a role in Crain\u0092s puzzle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Ayaka Sugawara (MIT) (joint work with Martin Hackl and Ken Wexler) Title: On acquisition of &#8220;only&#8221;: Question-Answer congruence and scalar presuppositions Date\/Time:Thursday, October 16, 12:30-1:45pm Location: 32-D461 There is a long-standing puzzle in acquisition of only since Crain et al. (1994): children up to age 6 display difficulties understanding sentences with pre-subject only (&#8220;subject-only&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}