{"pk":26889,"title":"The Semantics and Pragmatics of Logical Connectives: Adults’ and Children’sInterpretations of And and Or in a Guessing Game","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"language development; semantics; pragmatics;logical connectives; disjunction; conjunction."}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t0472h6","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","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26889/galley/16525/download/"}]}