Cory Bill
List of John Benjamins publications for which Cory Bill plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 2. To acquire a recursive grammar, children start with a recursive procedure (MERGE) Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 22–46 | Chapter
Recursion is a central topic in language acquisition because it helps to inform an explanatorily adequate theory of the human language faculty. Some researchers (e.g., Roeper, 2011) have proposed that it is possible for children’s early grammars to include a transitory acquisition stage that is… read more
2018 Chapter 13. Developmental insights into gappy phenomena: Comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 302–324 | Chapter
In natural language, we encounter various sentence types that, under certain circumstances, are evaluated as neither true nor false. For instance, it is intuitively difficult to assess the truth value of a sentence whose presupposition is not satisfied in the context. A common theoretical approach… read more