Some (but not all) questions I’m interested in:
Modal force and flavor
English modals can express different force: can means possible, must means necessary. They also express different flavors: epistemic, deontic, ability… When, and how, do children figure out these two dimensions?
Acquiring modal force: can vs. must, possible or necessary?
Joint work with Annemarie van Dooren, Ailís Cournane and Valentine Hacquard.
- Manuscript (under review)
- Shorter version (Amsterdam Colloquium 2019): slides; proceedings
- Poster (presented at McDonnell Workshop)
- Poster (presented at BUCLD43): poster; proceedings
Novel-Word Learning Experiment: what makes it challenging to acquire force?
Joint work with Ailís Cournane and Valentine Hacquard.
- Presented at ELM(1): slides; talk video; proceedings
Acquiring modal flavor: what kind of possibilities and necessities?
Joint work with Annemarie van Dooren, Ailís Cournane and Valentine Hacquard.
- Manuscript (under revision)
- Shorter version (Amsterdam Colloquium 2017): proceedings
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Modality, Tense and Aspect
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Actuality Entailments of ability modals with perception verbs
The Temporal Perspective of epistemic modals
Joint work with Annemarie van Dooren.
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Implicatures
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Primary and secondary implicatures
Joint work with Benjamin Spector and Emmanuel Chemla.
