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Collectivity, distributivity, and the interpretation of numerical expressions in child and adult language
No full textSentences containing plural numerical expressions (e.g., two boys) can give rise to two interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation admits of a part-whole structure. We present the results of a series of experiments designed to explore children’s understanding of this distinction and its implications for the acquisition of linguistic expressions with number words. We show that preschoolers access both interpretations, indicating that they have the requisite linguistic and conceptual machinery to generate the corresponding representations. Furthermore, they can shift their interpretation in response to structural and lexical manipulations. However, they are not fully adult-like: unlike adults, they are drawn to the distributive interpretation, and are not yet fully aware of the lexical semantics of each and together, which should favor one or another interpretation. This research bridges a gap between a well-established body of work in cognitive psychology on the acquisition of number words and more recent work investigating children’s knowledge of the syntactic and semantic properties of sentences featuring numerical expressions.Peer reviewe
Entretiens avec Julien Gaillard
No full textEntretiens avec Julien Gaillard, locuteur du patois de Valjouffrey, en vue d'explicitation de vocabulaire, syntaxe et prononciation
Ryhiner-Kartensammlung / 25 Carte générale de l'atlas topographique de l'isle de Corse : cet atlas et la description de l'isle de Corse se trouve a Paris chez le Sieur Julien à l'hôtel de Soubise
No full textOsten obenUrsprungswerk: "Atlas de l'isle de Corse" von Roch-Joseph Julien (Paris, 1769
Ryhiner-Kartensammlung / 3/B Carte generale, réduite des 43. feuilles de l'Atlas topographique et militaire des etats de la couronne de Bohême &a : pour servir a les assembler
No full textErläuterungen rechts: "Correspondants du Sr. Julien" und "Avertissement du Sr. Julien du premier mars 1758.
Ryhiner-Kartensammlung / 4/A Carte generale de l'electorat de Saxe et de ses frontieres
No full textTitel obenÜbersichtskarte eines Teils des "Atlas topographique et militaire, ..." von Roch-Joseph Julien (1758
Linda Julien
No full textOral history interview of Councilwoman Linda Julien by Elijah Pestana
In this interview, councilwoman Linda Julien explains how she became involved in public service and advocacy for the Miami Gardens community. She tells her backstory as a child of Haitian immigrants in South Florida, her background in real estate, and her experience with homeownership in Miami Gardens. She also describes the housing affordability crisis in Miami from both the renting and ownership perspective: from evictions and spiking rents to barriers like low inventory and high interest rates. She also emphasizes the importance of systemic change (including federal and local policies regarding housing) as a necessary solution to the dire situation of Miami’s unaffordability and wealth inequality.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/wealthgap/1005/thumbnail.jp
Data String Oscillations
No full text"Data String Oscillations is composed from a selection of five audio cassettes found in Artexte’s collection. Parts of the sound content of these cassettes were sampled and mixed with other sounds recorded in the physical environment of Artexte (metal squeaks from the library shelves, electromagnetic noises from the thermo-hygrometer, sounds from the staff computers browsing the database back-end, etc.)." -- Julien Champagne, Bandcamp
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Julien Kasper, November 2, 2007
No full textJulien Kasper performs in a jazz trio in the former Kenton Hall (now Lab West), introduced by Tim Goynes. Fred Hamilton is briefly heard giving announcements at the end
Ryhiner-Kartensammlung / 31-32 Partie meridionale de la Grande Bretagne : divisée en ses comtés, ou shires
No full textÜbersichtskarte am rechten Rand angeklebt: "Carte generale d'Angleterre et des côtes de France et d'Irlande qui lui sont opposées, pour servir a assembler les 12 feuilles quelle presente et qui servent de suite a l'Atlas d'Allemagne du Sr. Julien" (ca. 1:3 300 000, 16 x 18 cm
All together now: disentangling semantics and pragmatics with together in child and adult language
No full textThe way in which an event is packaged linguistically can be informative about the number of participants in the event and the nature of their participation. At times, however, a sentence is ambiguous, and pragmatic information weighs in to favor one interpretation over another. Whereas adults may readily know how to pick up on such cues to meaning, children – who are generally naïve to such pragmatic nuances – may diverge and access a broader range of interpretations, or one disfavored by adults. A number of cases come to us from a now well established body of research on scalar implicatures and scopal ambiguity. Here, we complement this previous work with a previously uninvestigated example of the semantic-pragmatic divide in language development arising from the interpretation of sentences with pluralities and together. Sentences such as Two boys lifted a block (together) allow for either a Collective or a Distributive interpretation (one pushing event vs. two spatio temporally coordinated events). We show experimentally that children allow both interpretations in sentences with together, whereas adults rule out the Distributive interpretation without further contextual motivation. However, children appear to be guided by their semantics in the readings they access, since they do not allow readings that are semantically barred. We argue that they are unaware of the pragmatic information adults have at their fingertips, such as the conversational implicatures arising from the presence of a modifier, the probability of its occurrence being used to signal a particular interpretation among a set of alternatives, and knowledge of the possible lexical alternatives.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language Acquisition on 02 July 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10489223.2015.1067319.Peer reviewe
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