When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin

David Huang; Rosalind Thornton; Stephen Crain

doi:10.1075/lald.63.07hua

When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin

David Huang, Rosalind Thornton, Stephen Crain

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According to a recent proposal, children license a conjunctive inference for statements with disjunction even without a licensing expression that adults require, e.g., the deontic modal verb is allowed to (Singh, Wexler, Astle, Kamawar, & Fox, 2016; Tieu et al., 2017). However, the rates of children's conjunctive inferences vary considerably across studies, which may be due to the different experimental tasks and materials. Using a Truth Value Judgment Task (Crain & Thornton, 1998), the present study systematically investigated children's interpretation of disjunctive sentences with and without a deontic modal verb. It was found that children computed conjunctive inferences only in sentences with the deontic modal verb. We discuss the possible reasons for the varying findings of children's interpretation of disjunction in previous studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Three streams of generative language acquisition research
Editors	Tania Ionin, Matthew Rispoli
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	125-142
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9789027262882
ISBN (Print)	9789027202246
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.63.07hua
Publication status	Published - Apr 2019
Event	Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (7th : 2016) - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States Duration: 8 Sept 2016 → 10 Sept 2016

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Name	Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
Volume	63
ISSN (Print)	0925-0123
ISSN (Electronic)	2213-428X

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Conference	Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (7th : 2016)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Urbana-Champaign
Period	8/09/16 → 10/09/16

Keywords

free choice inferences
disjunction
child language acquisition

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Huang, D, Thornton, R & Crain, S 2019, When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin. in T Ionin & M Rispoli (eds), Three streams of generative language acquisition research. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, vol. 63, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 125-142, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (7th : 2016), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States, 8/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.63.07hua

When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin. / Huang, David; Thornton, Rosalind ; Crain, Stephen.
Three streams of generative language acquisition research. ed. / Tania Ionin; Matthew Rispoli. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. p. 125-142 (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders; Vol. 63).

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