Speaker: Vina Tsakali
Title: Interpretation of complex- and simple-Or in adult and child Greek
Time: Thursday, November 9th, 12:30pm – 2pm
Location: 32-D461
Abstract:
Disjunctive particles have been argued to differ cross- and intra-linguistically as to whether they are obligatorily exclusive or not (Szabolcsi 2001, Aloni 2016). The current project examines the differences between the simple (i=Or) and the complex forms (i-i and ite-ite=Either-Or) of the disjunctive operators in Greek.
The results of four online questionnaires on adult Greek speakers showed no significant effect of the disjunction type suggesting that Greek adult speakers do not perceive one of the two types as obligatorily exclusive.
The development of the disjunction in Greek tested via a forced choice picture matching test provides evidence that children interpret both disjunction types inclusively (and probably conjunctively) until the age of 7.