Maryland in Philly at ELM 4

Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, ft. Ellen and Valentine.

June 10-12, the University of Pennsylvania hosts the fourth instance of ELM, a conference for experimental semantics and pragmatics, featuring two leaders in the area, our own Ellen Lau and Valentine Hacquard. Ellen is one of three keynote speakers, and Valentine is one of three invited to lead a symposium on modality. Joining them with poster presentations are Victor Chamot, Elizabeth Swanson, Allison Dods and Sarah Boukendour, together with Will Zumchak and Utku Turk, plus Jeff and Alexander, as collaborators. Also with work at the conference are a number of alumni, including Anouk Dieuleveut *21, Tyler Knowlton *21 , Aaron White *15, Alexis Wellwood *14 and Utako Minai *06.

• Ellen Lau / Noun meaning and instance-of-kind conceptual structure
• Valentine Hacquard / Modal language in development
• Victor Chamot, David Robin Müller and Anouk Dieuleveut / French Modal Ellipsis And Anaphora: Testing The Epistemic Restriction    
• Elizabeth Swanson, William Zumchak, Jeffrey Lidz and Valentine Hacquard / Three- and four-year-olds’ understanding of tense/aspect marking in finite and nonfinite embedded clauses  
• Allison Dods / Evidence in children’s input for the meanings of 3-argument constructional homonyms   
• Sarah Boukendour, Utku Turk, Alexander Williams and Valentine Hacquard / Modal Competition in Inferential Contexts: Evidence from Force-Choice Experiments