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SUMMARY:Little ‘Gricean’ comprehenders: Implicature\, presupposition and 
 metaphor development
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DESCRIPTION:'''Host:''' School of Psychological Sciences\n\n'''About the 
 event:''' \n\n'''Abstract'''\n\nRecent developmental research on social 
 cognition indicates that pragmatics play a grounding role in the develop
 ment of children's communicative skills even before they utter their fir
 st words. Furthermore\, much evidence in language acquisition suggests t
 hat young children could not learn to speak without impressive pragmatic
  abilities. In stark contrast with this picture\, linguistic pragmatic i
 nferences (e.g. reference assignment\, implicatures\, metaphors\, presup
 positions and irony) appear to develop later than other linguistic abili
 ties. \n\nAccording to leading pragmatic theories\, inferences involved 
 in understanding various types of implicit and non-literal meanings requ
 ire (a) intention reading\, (b) taking into account common ground (or mu
 tual knowledge)\, (c) and at least some degree of cooperation. Empirical
  findings suggest that prelinguistic children already master these skill
 s. Words and syntax\, it seems\, are all there is left to learn for chil
 dren to become perfect little ‘Gricean’ comprehenders. Yet\, prior devel
 opmental research on linguistic pragmatic phenomena suggests otherwise. 
 \n\nThis talk tries to reconcile the development of pre-linguistic and l
 inguistic pragmatic abilities by presenting data on three phenomena: sca
 lar implicatures\, presupposition and metaphor. It will discuss evidence
  showing these phenomena might be understood much earlier than prior res
 ults suggest\, and that several factors – independently of children’s pr
 agmatic abilities per se – may explain children’s apparent struggle with
  pragmatic inferences. \n\n'''Speaker Biography'''\n\nNausicaa Pouscoulo
 us is a Lecturer in Linguistics at University College London. Currently\
 , her research combines experimental and theoretical approaches to study
  phenomena at the interface between semantics and pragmatics\, such as s
 calar implicature\, presupposition and metaphor. Lately\, she is particu
 larly interested in the acquisition of pragmatic abilities by typically 
 and atypically developing children.\n\n'''Further information'''\n\nFor 
 further information about this seminar\, please contact [mailto:michaeli
 ne.k.glover@manchester.ac.uk michaeline.k.glover@manchester.ac.uk] or ab
 out LuCiD\, please contact [mailto:helen.allwood@manchester.ac.uk  helen
 .allwood@manchester.ac.uk ] \n
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LOCATION:Room 6.208 \, University Place\, Manchester
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