Workshop on the acquisition of quantification
October 4-5
UMass Amherst
Lederle Grad Center – the Math Lounge
Friday, October 4th
8:45 Coffee
9:00 Tom Roeper: introduction
Why there are no Methods, only Theories: Experimental Style and the Historical Path from syntax to discourse in the acquisition of quantification.
9:30 Jill De Villiers, Peter De Villiers, Rosie Alig and Margaret Collins, Smith College
Number Word Interpretation is not Impaired in High-functioning Children and Adolescents with Autism
10:00 Lilla Pintér & Mátyás Ger?cs, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
How do Hungarian preschoolers interpret number words?
10:30 Jing Yang, University of Connecticut
The “Exact” Interpretation of Number Words
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Kristen Syrett, Silvia Perez-Cortes, Anna Lingwall, Jennifer Austin and Liliana Sanchez, Hannah Baker, Christina Germak, Anthony Arias-Amaya Rutgers University-New Brunswick
How Spanish-English bilingual children approach entailment-based scalar implicatures
12:00 Einat Shetreet, Julia Reading, Gennaro Chierchia and Nadine Gaab, Harvard University, Children’s Hospital Boston and Northeastern University
NOT EVERY sentence is more complex than SOME
12:30 Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, Peng Zhou and Stephen Crain, University of Connecticut and Macquarie University
Children can compute ‘any’ free choice inference
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Invited speaker: Martin Hackl, MIT
3:00 Erik-Jan Smits, Angeliek Van Hout and Bart Hollebrandse, University of Groningen
3:30 Marie-Elise Van der Ziel & Peter Coopmans, HAN University of Applied Sciences and Utrecht University and Utrecht University
Problems with Quantifiers: Children’s Interpretation of Different Types of Universal Quantification
4:00 Coffee break
4:30 Athulya Aravind & Jill De Villiers, MIT and Smith College
Quantification with Every: Children’s Error Types over Time
5:00 Patricia Brooks, Anna Schwartz & Irina Sekerina, City University of New York
Quantifier Spreading in School Aged Children
5:30 Amanda Rizun & Jeremy Hartman, UMass Amherst
Quantifier spreading and domain restrictions on event quantification
7:00 Dinner at the Faculty club
Saturday, October 5th
8:45 Coffee
9:00 Bill Philip, Utrecht University
Comments on Quantifier Spreading
10:00 Katalin E. Kiss, Tamás Zétényi and Mátyás Ger?cs, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hungarian preschoolers’ interpretation of doubly quantified sentences
10:30 Natasa Knezevic, University of Nantes
Distributive marker and numerals
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Seth Cable, Rama Novogrodsky, Magda Oiry and Tom Roeper, UMass Amherst
Each and every
12:00 Irina Sekerina and Antje Sauermann, CUNY College of Staten Island, University of Potsdam
The “Signature” of Q-Spreading Errors in Children and Bilingual Heritage Adults
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Margreet Van Koert, Olaf Koeneman, Fred Weerman and Aafke Hulk, Radboud University of Nijmegen and University of Amsterdam
A reinterpretation of the quantificational asymmetry
2:30 Roumyana Slabakova & Lydia White, University of Southampton and Mc Gill University
Pronoun Interpretation with Referential and Quantified Antecedents in the Second Language
3:00 Kriszta Szendroi & Barbara Hoehle, UCL and University of Potsdam
Quantifier raising over an existential subject
3:30 Coffee break
4:00 Steven Piantadosi, Josh Tenenbaum and Noah Goodman, Rochester, BCS, MIT BCS and Stanford Psychology
Modeling the acquisition of quantifier semantics: a case study in function word learnability
4:30 Adam Liter, Chris Heffner and Cristina Schmitt, MSU and UMD
5:00 Invited speaker: Julien Musolino, Rutgers University
Acquisition of Quantifier Scope: where we started, where we are, and where we should be heading
7:00 Dinner at ABC