Interpreting definite and bare plurals across different contexts: experimental evidence from adult mono- and bilingual Greek speakers

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• Dr Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Post-doctoral Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/University of Cambridge
• Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:30
• Room 336, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (MML).

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In this talk I will present results from a recently completed project on the distribution and interpretation of nominals with generic/anaphoric interpretation across different contexts in monolingual Greek speakers as well as in a L1-Greek L2-English bilingual population (currently resident in the UK for at least 6 years and highly proficient in English). The L2 has different settings from the L1 in the domain under study and this may result in different behaviours in the two groups. I will discuss results from a context-based acceptability judgment task and a timed truth value judgment task that involved ambiguity resolution. Initial analyses do not reveal any differences between the two groups in these tasks. The implications of such results as well as future research directions will be discussed.

This talk is part of the MEITS Multilingualism Seminars series.

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