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    "pk": 26889,
    "title": "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Logical Connectives: Adults’ and Children’sInterpretations of And and Or in a Guessing Game",
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    "abstract": "The development of the ubiquitous logical connectives and andor provides a window into the role of semantics and pragmat-ics in children’s linguistic development. Previous research hassuggested that adults and children might differ in their interpre-tation of or in two ways. First, unlike adults, children mightinterpret or as logical conjunction, akin to and. Second, chil-dren might interpret or as inclusive disjunction while adultsinterpret it as exclusive. We report experimental studies thatprobe interpretations of and and or in adults and children us-ing truth value judgements as well as children’s spontaneouslinguistic feedback. Both truth judgements and linguistic feed-back showed that four-year-olds do not interpret or as and.While children’s truth judgments suggested that they did notderive exclusivity implicatures, however, their corrective feed-back showed signs of sensitivity to the implicature, suggestingthat the truth value judgement task could have underestimatedchildren’s pragmatic competence. More generally, four-year-olds’ interpretation of logical connectives may not be as differ-ent from adults as previously supposed.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "language development; semantics; pragmatics;logical connectives; disjunction; conjunction."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Masoud",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jasbi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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