Children’s acquisition of modal verbs

Staniszewski, F., Stacey, R., and Aravind, A. (2023). Overly Strong Interpretations of Modal Verbs In Child Language. To appear in the proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Children’s acquisition of Quantification

Rosenstein, L., Dretler, K., & Hackl, M. (2022). Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives with Differentials, To appear in the proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Rasin, E., & Aravind, A. (2021). The nature of the semantic stimulus: the acquisition of every as a case study. Natural Language Semantics, 29(2), 339-375. link

Chen, F. Rosenstein, L, and Hackl M. (in press). Quantifier-Spreading under Negation. To appear in the proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. link

Torma, C., Brody, G., and Aravind, A. (2021). More than the sum of its parts: Acquiring semantically complex quantifiers. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43). link

Hackl, M., Sugawara, A., & Wexler, K. (2015). Question-Answer (In) Congruence in the acquisition of only. Proceedings of the 39th BUCLD. link

Children’s acquisition of more and fewer

Hackl, M., Apostoaie, E., and Rosenstein, L. (2021). Acquisition of Numerals, the Natural Numbers, and Amount Comparatives. In proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Pages 276-289. link

Children's acquisition of the conjunction and

Chen, S., Kobayashi, F., Koring, L., Bill, Rosenstein, L., Hackl, M. (2020). Comprehending and: The Acquisition of English Conjunction in Child Grammar. In Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference of Language Development. link

Chen, S., Rosenstein, L,. and Hackl, M. (2019). Facilitation effects of QUD and event type on negative sentences. Poster Presented at CUNY 2019

Children's acquisition of either and too

Francis, N., Jones, S., Rosenstein, Hackl. (2021). On the acquistion of either and too. In Proceedings of ELM 1: 159-171. link

Francis, N., Jones, S., Rosenstein, Hackl. (2019). The path to polarity sensitivity: Acquisition of either and too. Talk presented at Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, September 9.

Children's acquisition of presuppositions

Aravind, A., Fox, D. & Hackl, M. (2023). Principles of presupposition in development. Linguistics and Philosophy 46, 291–332 . link

Chen, S. Y., Torma, C., and Aravind, A. (2021). Non-uniformities in the Development of Presupposition Projection in If-Conditionals. Talk given at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD46). Boston, MA.

Chen, S. Y., Torma, C., and Aravind, A. Asymmetry in Presupposition Projection in If-Conditionals: Evidence from Acquisition. Talk given at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS52). New Brunswick, NJ.

Children's acquisition of even

Gowda Y., Newman E., Rosenstein, L. and Hackl M. (2020) "Scalar Inferences in the Acquisition of Even". Frontiers in Communication. 5:593634. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.593634

Gowda Y., Newman E., Rosenstein, L., Hackl, M. (2018). “Polarity sensitivity of even in early child grammar.” Learnability in a Parametric World (Workshop at Romance Turn IX), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Sep. 2018. Talk.

Other Studies

Aravind, A., Hackl, M., and Wexler, K. (2018). Syntactic and pragmatic factors in children’s comprehension of cleft constructions. Language Acquisition, 25(3), 284-314. link

Boyce, V., Aravind, A., and Hackl, M. (2017). Lexical and Syntactic Effects on Auxiliary Selection: Evidence from Child French. Proceedings of 41st BUCLD. link

Syrett, K., & Aravind, A. (2022). Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults. Journal of Child Language, 49(2), 239-265.