We present evidence that preschool children oftentimes understand disjunctive sentences
as if they were conjunctive. The result holds for matrix disjunctions as well as disjunctions …

Many studies find true verbal passives in English acquired only after age four, but some find
three-year-olds fully adultlike. We explain this discrepancy using Relativized Minimality (RM …

Abstract (for Part I and Part II) There has been a recent 'experimental turn'in the study of
scalar implicature, yielding important results concerning online processing and acquisition …

Much work on child sentence processing has demonstrated that children are able to use
various linguistic cues to incrementally resolve temporary syntactic ambiguities, but they fail …

Sentences with disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier, Every A is P or Q, tend to
give rise to distributive inferences that each of the disjuncts holds of at least one individual in …

We review an array of experimental methodological factors that either contribute to or detract
from the measurement of pragmatic implicatures in child language. We carry out a truth …

Sentences containing plural numerical expressions (eg, two boys) can give rise to two
interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation …

Though preschoolers in certain experimental contexts strongly prefer to interpret ambiguous
sentences containing quantified NPs and negation on the basis of surface syntax …

This study investigates three-year-olds' representations of the verbs think and know, in
attempt to assess their understanding of factivity. Know, being factive, is used in contexts …

The past decade has seen a protracted debate over the semantics of epistemic modals.
According to contextualists, epistemic modals quantify over the possibilities compatible with …