A half-day workshop takes place on the afternoon before Erik-Jan’s Smits’ dissertation defense and presents work by RUG linguists who study children’s acquisition of quantification and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.
Wednesday September 15 2010, 1-5 pm | University of Groningen
Invited speaker: Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts
The workshop will be held at the University of Groningen, Aweg 30, room 127. View Larger Map Travel info You can find more travel information at the University of Groningen website.
Preliminary program: 1.00-1.45 | Erik-Jan Smits, RUG | Acquiring quantification: How children use semantics and pragmatics to constrain meaning 1.45-2.00 Break 2.00-2.30 | Petra Hendriks, RUG | Acquiring quantifier scope in Dutch: A comprehension/production study 2.30-3.00 | Ruggero Montalto, RUG | Core Number Cognition and Quantifier Processing: How ratio and numerosity might be important to restrict the domain …
The results presented in Smits (2010) underline that more insight can be gained into the course of language development when multiple factors that are relevant to assigning meaning to linguistic structures are taken into account. For quantified sentences, this means that both syntax, semantics and pragmatics have to be taken into account. Instead of focusing …