![“Children seem to interpret disjunction like conjunction,” observes MIT Linguistics Professor Danny Fox. However, Fox adds, although “it has been claimed children are very different from adults in the interpretation of logical words,” the study’s larger implication is almost the opposite — namely that “the child is [otherwise] identical to the adult, but there is a very small paramet...](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201605/MIT-Language-Acquisition.jpg?itok=tYsyxezn)
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Sabine Iatridou and Kai von Fintel named fellows of the Linguistics Society of America
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