Second-call grants
Sensitivity to quantity maxims in children with autism and language impairment
Catherine Davies, Courtenay Norbury & Clara Andrés Roqueta
Pragmatic ability in typical and atypical populations has received significant attention from linguists and clinicians, yet questions remain regarding specific pragmatic competencies in developmental disorders such...
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Iterated conditionals. As ordinary as can be?
Shira Elqayam, Janneke Huitink & David Over
The aim of this project is to investigate whether human beings can cope with successive embeddings of hypotheses, which is reflected in iterated conditionals like: (1) If the light will go on if you press the switch, ...
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How linguistic is linguistic context?
Marta Ghio & Nicola Spotorno (Referees: Valentina Bambini & Claudia Bianchi)
In daily-life, words are not understood in isolation, but rather in discourse, i.e., in linguistic co(n)texts. In traditional pragmatics, linguistic context is defined as “what has been said so far” (Verschueren, 1987). ...
Selective advantage in pragmatics or general sensitivity to linguistic infelicity? The effects of bilingualism on children's judgments
Napoleon Katsos, Ewa Haman & Aneta Miekisz
Several areas where bilingual children may have a cognitive advantage over monolingual children have been identified, with the most likely candidate being higher competence in executive control. It has also been ...
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Children’s comprehension of apparently irrelevant and under-informative utterances
Tiffany Morisseau, Catherine Davies & Danielle Matthews
Soon after their first birthdays, children are able to detect the intentions behind others’ actions. Infants as young as 14 months of age can interpret cues such as gazing and pointing gestures as being relevant. For ...
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The cognitive costs and benefits of encoding and interpreting colour adjectives
Paula Rubio-Fernández & Sam Glucksberg
At the end of 2008, we ran a pilot for a developmental study investigating children’s use of referential descriptions, in particular the issue of under-informativity. Children (n=17) were shown a booklet with paper...
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