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Ozturk, Ozge; Papafragou, Anna – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Evidentiality in language marks how information contained in a sentence was acquired. For instance, Turkish has two past-tense morphemes that mark whether access to information was direct (typically, perception) or indirect (hearsay/inference). Full acquisition of evidential systems appears to be a late achievement cross-linguistically. Currently,…
Descriptors: Turkish, Information Sources, Language Processing, Hypothesis Testing
Ozturk, Ozge; Papafragou, Anna – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Three experiments investigated the acquisition of English epistemic modal verbs (e.g., "may", "have to"). Semantically, these verbs encode possibility or necessity with respect to available evidence. Pragmatically, the use of weak epistemic modals often gives rise to scalar conversational inferences (e.g., "The toy may be…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Pragmatics, Inferences, Semantics