Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on
the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different …

Reference set computation-the construction of a (global) comparison set to determine
whether a given derivation is appropriate in context-comes with a processing cost. I argue …

Minimal Answers Page 1 XX Ana Lúcia Santos Minimal Answers Ellipsis, syntax and discourse
in the acquisition of European Portuguese Lan gu age A cqu isition & Lan gu age D isord ers 48 …

Children up to school age have been reported to perform poorly when interpreting
sentences containing restrictive and additive focus particles by treating sentences with a …

Children's ability to interpret color adjective noun phrases (eg, red butterfly) as contrastive
was examined in an eyetracking study with 6-year-old Russian children. Pitch accent …

This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by
5-to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder …

Children often produce nonadult responses to sentences with the focus operator only, such
as Only the cat is holding a flag. For example, children often accept this sentence as a …

How do children develop the mapping between prosody and other levels of linguistic
knowledge? This question has received considerable attention in child language research …

This article aims to clarify misunderstandings over the relation between production and
comprehension in the acquisition of the focus-to-accentuation mapping and shed new light …

Previous chapters of this book have paid considerable attention to bidirectional Optimality
Theory, stressing the importance of bidirectionality in natural language interpretation. In …