11月25日11:10—镜海语言学社学术沙龙—黄海泉教授：When OR is assigned a conjunctive inference in child language—澳门大学主办

镜海语言学社学术沙龙（2020年第2期）

主题：When OR is assigned a conjunctive inference in child language

主讲：黄海泉教授（湖北工业大学）

主办方：澳门大学

时间：2020年11月25日（周三）11：10—12：10

地址：线下：E21A-2100多功能室   线上：腾讯会议ID：499949245

Abstract：It has been proposed that children differ from adults in that children license a conjunctive inference to disjunctive sentences that lack any licensing expression. Although children's conjunctive interpretations of disjunction have been reported in some studies，

they have not been observed in other studies.This study investigates one possible source of the different findings， which is the presence or absence of objects that are contextually introduced，beyond those mentioned in the test sentences. Using a Truth Value Judgment Task, we conducted three experiments with preschool Mandarin-speaking

children.The findings reveal that entities in non-linguistic contexts influence children's understanding of logical expressions. Moreover，preschool children already have linguistic knowledge that modal verbs license conjunctive inferences for sentences with disjunction.