Vol. 1 (2021)

This volume contains articles derived from presentations at the first Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference, which was hosted virtually by the University of Pennsylvania, September 16-18, 2020.

Editors: Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz, Anna Papafragou

Editorial Committee: Josephine Bowerman, Emory Davis, Martin Fuchs, Cecile Larralde, Teodora Mihoc, Melissa Nieves Rivera, Mieke Slim, and Sadhwi Srinivas

ISSN: 2694-1791

Published: 2021-07-30

Articles

Coming in, or going out? Measuring the effect of discourse factors on perspective prominence

Carolyn Jane Anderson

1–14
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New data on the competition between definites and indefinites

Nadine Bade, Florian Schwarz

15-26
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Causal selection – the linguistic take

Elitzur Avraham Bar-Asher Siegal, Noa Bassel, York Hagmayer

27-38
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Listeners use descriptive contrast to disambiguate novel referents and make inferences about novel categories

Claire Bergey, Daniel Yurovsky

39-46
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Where truth and optimality part. Experiments on implicatures with epistemic adverbs

Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz, Nicole Gotzner

47-58
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Shadow playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic adverbs are a kind of magic!

Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz, Nicole Gotzner

59-70
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Incremental processing of telicity in Italian children

Jasmijn E. Bosch, Mathilde Chailleux, Francesca Foppolo

71-77
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Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller

Jaime Castillo-Gamboa, Alexis Wellwood, Deniz Rudin

78-89
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Generics as default? Comparing the acquisition of universals and generics in Spanish

Elena Castroviejo, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Marta Ponciano, Agustín Vicente

90-100
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The interpretations of scalar implicatures, presuppositions, and implicated presupposition by Thai children with autism

Nattanun Chanchaochai

101-112
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What's the smallest part of spinach? A new experimental approach to the count/mass distinction

Sea Hee Choi, Tania Ionin

113-124
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Seeing vs. Seeing That: Children's Understanding of Direct Perception and Inference Reports

E. Emory Davis, Barbara Landau

125-135
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Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals

Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailis Cournane, Valentine Hacquard

136-146
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Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature

Danielle Dionne, Elizabeth Coppock

147-158
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On the acquisition of either and too

Naomi Francis, Shuli Jones, Leo Rosenstein, Martin Hackl

159-171
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Toward an accommodation account of deaccenting under nonidentity

Jeffrey Geiger, Ming Xiang

172-183
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Simulating semantic change: A methodological note

Remus Gergel, Martin Kopf-Giammanco, Maike Puhl

184-196
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Reciprocal predicates: a prototype model

Imke Kruitwagen, Yoad Winter, James Hampton

197-203
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(Not) acquiring meaning in a second language: Are input deficits key?

Barbara C. Malt, Xingjian Yang, Jessica Joseph

204-211
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Superlative-modified numerals and negation: A multiply negotiable cost

Teodora Mihoc, Kathryn Davidson

212-223
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Pseudo-Incorporated Antecedents and Anaphora in Persian: The Influence of Stereotypical Knowledge

Fereshteh Modarresi, Manfred Krifka

224-236
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Definitely Islands? Experimental investigation of definite islands

Anissa Neal, Brian Dillon

237-248
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Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure

Maribel Romero, Erlinde Meertens, Andrea Beltrama

249-260
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Discourse behavior of possessives reflects the importance of interpersonal relationships

Jesse Storbeck, Elsi Kaiser

261-272
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Intention and Attention in Image-Text Presentations: A Coherence Approach

Ilana Torres, Kathryn Slusarczyk, Malihe Alikhani, Matthew Stone

273-283
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Clause types and speech acts in speech to children

Anissa Zaitsu, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard, Jeff Lidz

284-297
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Overspecification of small cardinalities in reference production

Natalia Zevakhina, Elena Pasalskaya

298-309
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De re interpretation in belief reports: An experimental investigation

Yuhan Zhang, Kathryn Davidson

310-321
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Vol. 1 (2021)

Articles

Coming in, or going out? Measuring the effect of discourse factors on perspective prominence

New data on the competition between definites and indefinites

Causal selection – the linguistic take

Listeners use descriptive contrast to disambiguate novel referents and make inferences about novel categories

Where truth and optimality part. Experiments on implicatures with epistemic adverbs

Shadow playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic adverbs are a kind of magic!

Incremental processing of telicity in Italian children

Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller

Generics as default? Comparing the acquisition of universals and generics in Spanish

The interpretations of scalar implicatures, presuppositions, and implicated presupposition by Thai children with autism

What's the smallest part of spinach? A new experimental approach to the count/mass distinction

Seeing vs. Seeing That: Children's Understanding of Direct Perception and Inference Reports

Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals

Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature

On the acquisition of either and too

Toward an accommodation account of deaccenting under nonidentity

Simulating semantic change: A methodological note

Reciprocal predicates: a prototype model

(Not) acquiring meaning in a second language: Are input deficits key?

Superlative-modified numerals and negation: A multiply negotiable cost

Pseudo-Incorporated Antecedents and Anaphora in Persian: The Influence of Stereotypical Knowledge

Definitely Islands? Experimental investigation of definite islands

Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure

Discourse behavior of possessives reflects the importance of interpersonal relationships

Intention and Attention in Image-Text Presentations: A Coherence Approach

Clause types and speech acts in speech to children

Overspecification of small cardinalities in reference production

De re interpretation in belief reports: An experimental investigation

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