Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification 2015
October 16-17 2015
Research Institute for Linguistics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary
Program
Friday, October 16, 2015
9.00 - 9.10
Welcome
9.10 – 10.10
INVITED TALK - Irina Sekerina: What Eye Movements Reveal About
Quantifier-Spreading
10.10 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.10
Ken Drozd: Children's cumulative construals of universally quantified
sentences
11.10 – 11.50
Asya Achimova, Viviane Déprez and Julien Musolino: The subject/object
asymmetry in questions with quantifiers: syntax or discourse?
11.50 - 12.30
Ayaka Sugawara, Martin Hackl, Irina Onoprienko and Ken Wexler: Acquisition
of quantifier scope: Evidence from English Rise-Fall-Rise
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.40
Elena Pagliarini, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Stephen Crain and Lyn Tieu:
Distributive inferences in child language
14.40 - 15.20
Natasa Knezevic and Hamida Demirdache: The distributive share quantifier
po in Serbian
15.20 - 16.00
Balázs Surányi and Gergő Turi: Focus and Givenness in quantifier scope
interpretation
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.10
Margaret Ka-Yan Lei and Thomas Hun-Tak Lee: Differentiating universal
quantification from perfectivity: Cantonese-speaking children's command of
the affixal quantifier 'saai3'
17.10 - 17.50
Amanda Rizun and Jeremy Hartman: Acquisition of Exceptives in Quantified
Sentences
Saturday, October 17, 2015
9.10 - 10.10
INVITED TALK - Yosef Grodzinsky: Polarity, Numerosity, and Verification
Procedures: Experimental Explorations
10.00 – 10.40
Tasos Chatzikonstantinou and Michaela Nerantzini: On Nouwen's class A and
B quantifiers: Psycholingustic and sign-language data
10.40 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.40
Oliver Bott, Udo Klein and Fabian Schlotterbeck: Empty set effects during
online comprehension and verification of quantifiers
11.40 - 12.20
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Gert-Jan Munneke and Jakub Szymanik: Alternative
Representations in Proportional Quantifier Verification
12.20 - 13.00
Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi: The existential quantificational
force of pseudo-incorporated nominals and its effects on their anaphoric
uptake
13.00 - 14.20 Lunch
14.20 - 15.00 Poster session
Posters:
Barbara Tomaszewicz, Roumyana Pancheva and Joanna Blaszczak: Focus
association revealed in reading times (alternate)
Anna Balázs and Anna Babarczy: The interpretation of Hungarian preverbal
focus sentences by children and its correlation with some general
cognitive abilities
Ana Bosnic: Morpho-syntactic cues for distributivity in Serbian
Katalin É. Kiss, Lilla Pintér and Tamás Zétényi: Ostention effect in
experiments testing children's interpretation of quantification
Chorong Kang: Covert movement, audible in prosody
Petia Kojouharova and Attila Krajcsi: The Source of the Distance Effect in
an Artificial Number Sequence
Balázs Surányi and Levente Madarász: The distributive-collective
ambiguity: The effect of Information Structure
David Townsend: The Role of Pragmatics in Interpreting Universally
Quantified Frequency Modifiers
15.00 - 15.40
Adam Liter, Antoinette Huelskamp, Christopher C. Heffner and Cristina
Schmitt: Non-grammaticalized number entails an exclusive interpretation of
plural morphology
15.40 - 16.20
Caitlin Meyer, Sjef Barbiers and Fred Weerman: Getting your ducks in a
row: acquiring ordinals and ordinality
16.20 - 16.40 Coffee break
16.40 - 17.20
Benedict Vassileiou, Napoleon Katsos and Spyridoula Varlokosta: Logical
and inferred meaning of quantifiers in Williams Syndrome
17.20 - 18.00
Lynda Kennedy, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu and Raffaella Folli: Scope
ambiguity in Broca's aphasia: A comparative approach
Registration is open until September 30, 2015.
For further information, please see the conference website:
http://www.nytud.hu/lcq2015/index.html