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IASCL 2008, S8-2

Symposium Session 8-2"Acquiring the semantics and syntax of presuppositions", IASCL 2008, Edinburgh

Date: July 31; 16.30 hrs - 18.30 hrs
Chair: Petra Schulz, University of Frankfurt am Main
Discussant: Ana Pérez-Leroux, University of Toronto
Title: Acquiring the semantics and syntax of presuppositions

Overview

Introduction: Acquiring the semantics and syntax of presuppositions
Introduction
Petra Schulz, Ana Pérez-Leroux

Asserting and presupposing grammatical number
Ana Pérez-Leroux
University of Toronto

Why is it better to treat PL as expressing a presupposition in acquisition?
Christina Schmitt1, Karen Miller2
1
Michigan State University, 2Calvin College

The role of theory of mind in acquisition of factivity
Petra Schulz1, Carolyn Ludwig2
1
University of Frankfurt, 2University of Mannheim

Marking Propositions in grammar: How do Children see where they are?
Tom Roeper
University of Massachusetts

Children's acquisition of exhaustivity in clefts
Tanja Heizmann
University of Massachusetts