Attitude verbs, such as think, want, and know, describe internal mental states that leave few
cues as to their meanings in the physical world. Consequently, their acquisition requires …

Words have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their
acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and …

In 'Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping', Hacquard (2022) argues that abstract
syntax is useful for word learning, but that an additional cue, pragmatics, is both necessary …

The present study aimed to systematically examine the specific roles of parents' cognitive
mental state terms and sentential complements on 3-to 5-year-olds' theory of mind (ToM) …

Our study explores whether there is a conjunctive default in the interpretation of disjunction,
focusing on Romanian children's and adults' understanding of nonce functional words. We …

Syntactic bootstrapping is based on the premise that there are probabilistic
correspondences between the syntactic structure in which a word occurs and the word's …

Belief verbs describe mental states lacking obvious correlates in the physical environment,
making their semantics potentially difficult to learn. This paper is concerned with evaluating …

Across numerous languages, the attitude verb" think" is learned later than other attitude
verbs like" want." But why? This essays advances a new hypothesis: children initially treat …

In learning a verb, children must master various facts about its form and meaning, such as
what frames the verb can appear in. English learners must learn that the attitude verb know …