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Children's attitude problems: Bootstrapping verb meaning from syntax and pragmatics by Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…How do children learn the meanings of propositional attitude verbs? We argue that children use information contained in both syntactic distribution and…”
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On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries by Hacquard, Valentine

“…Crosslinguistically, the same modal words can be used to express a wide range of interpretations. This crosslinguistic trend supports a Kratzerian analysis,…”
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On the interaction of aspect and modal auxiliaries by Hacquard, Valentine

“…This paper discusses the interaction of aspect and modality, and focuses on the puzzling implicative effect that arises when perfective aspect appears on…”
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Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on "force" and "flavor" with young preschoolers by Cournane, Ailís, Hirzel, Mina, Hacquard, Valentine

“…Modals (e.g., can, must) vary along two dimensions of meaning: "force" (i.e., possibility or necessity), and "flavor" (i.e., possibilities relative to…”
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Semantic Information and the Syntax of Propositional Attitude Verbs by White, Aaron S., Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…Propositional attitude verbs, such as think and want, have long held interest for both theoretical linguists and language acquisitionists because their…”
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Do children know whanything? 3-year-olds know the ambiguity of wh-phrases in Mandarin by Yang, Yu'an, Goodhue, Daniel, Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…Wh-phrases in Mandarin have an interrogative (like English what) and an indefinite (like English a/some) interpretation. Previous comprehension studies find…”
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Epistemics and attitudes by Anand, Pranav, Hacquard, Valentine

“…This paper investigates the distribution of epistemic modals in attitude contexts in three Romance languages, as well as their potential interaction with mood…”
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Finding the force: How children discern possibility and necessity modals by Dieuleveut, Anouk, van Dooren, Annemarie, Cournane, Ailís, Hacquard, Valentine

“…This paper investigates when and how children figure out the force of modals: that possibility modals (e.g., can / might ) express possibility, and necessity…”
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"Think" Pragmatically: Children's Interpretation of Belief Reports by Lewis, Shevaun, Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…Children under 4 years of age often evaluate belief reports based on reality instead of beliefs. They tend to reject sentences like, "John thinks that giraffes…”
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Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax by Huang, Nick, White, Aaron Steven, Liao, Chia-Hsuan, Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…Attitude verbs like think and want describe mental states (belief and desire) that lack reliable physical correlates that could help children learn their…”
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Three-Year-Olds' Understanding of Desire Reports Is Robust to Conflict by Harrigan, Kaitlyn, Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…In this paper, we present two experiments with 3-year-olds, exploring their interpretation of sentences about desires. A mature concept of desire entails that…”
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The Question—Answer Requirement for scope assignment by Gualmini, Andrea, Hulsey, Sarah, Hacquard, Valentine, Fox, Danny

“…This paper focuses on children's interpretation of sentences containing negation and a quantifier (e.g., The detective didn't find some guys). Recent studies…”
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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study by Hacquard, Valentine, Wellwood, Alexis

“…The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature…”
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On the Acquisition of Attitude Verbs by Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…Attitude verbs, such as think, want, and know , describe internal mental states that leave few cues as to their meanings in the physical world. Consequently,…”
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The Anatomy of a Comparative Illusion by Wellwood, Alexis, Pancheva, Roumyana, Hacquard, Valentine, Phillips, Colin

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Do Children Know "Wh"anything? 3-Year-Olds Know the Ambiguity of "Wh"-Phrases in Mandarin by Yang, Yu'an, Goodhue, Daniel, Hacquard, Valentine, Lidz, Jeffrey

“…"Wh"-phrases in Mandarin have an interrogative (like English "what") and an indefinite (like English "a/some") interpretation. Previous comprehension studies…”
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Figuring Out Root and Epistemic Uses of Modals: The Role of the Input by van Dooren, Annemarie, Dieuleveut, Anouk, Cournane, Ailís, Hacquard, Valentine

“…Abstract This paper investigates how children figure out that modals like must can be used to express both epistemic and “root” (i.e. non epistemic) flavors…”
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Measuring and Comparing Individuals and Events by WELLWOOD, Alexis, HACQUARD, Valentine, PANCHEVA, Roumyana

“…This squib investigates parallels between nominal and verbal comparatives. Building on key insights of Hackl (2000) and Bale & Barner (2009), we show that more…”
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The effects of inventory on vowel perception in French and Spanish: An MEG study by Hacquard, Valentine, Walter, Mary Ann, Marantz, Alec

“…Production studies have shown that speakers of languages with larger phoneme inventories expand their acoustic space relative to languages with smaller…”
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Modality (Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics) by Hacquard, Valentine

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