{"id":77,"date":"2011-01-24T01:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T06:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx540s11\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-01-24T01:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T06:56:49","slug":"hw1-note-about-the-last-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/2011\/01\/24\/hw1-note-about-the-last-question\/","title":{"rendered":"HW1: Note about the last question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last question of the homework refers to a table concerning child utterances containing <em>not<\/em>, and gives the table in the same form as the others, crossing inflection in the stimulus with inflection in the child&#8217;s utterance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But wait,&#8221; you might say, &#8220;you don&#8217;t <em>get<\/em> inflected verbs with <em>not<\/em> in English.  What&#8217;s going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a verb negated with <em>not<\/em> in English is not inflected, the inflection is carried on <em>do<\/em>: <em>He does not go.<\/em>  The trick here is revealed by looking at (8b), which is the stimulus sentence for the inflected-<em>not<\/em> condition.  What the researchers did is put the <em>not<\/em> in a higher clause: <em>Do you think that he goes, or don&#8217;t you think that he goes?<\/em> So, <em>goes<\/em> is inflected in the stimulus sentence, as advertised, and children (like adults) interpret this as meaning the same thing as <em>Do you think that he goes, or do you think that he doesn&#8217;t go?<\/em>&mdash;and, it seems, answer accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last question of the homework refers to a table concerning child utterances containing not, and gives the table in the same form as the others, crossing inflection in the stimulus with inflection in the child&#8217;s utterance. &#8220;But wait,&#8221; you might say, &#8220;you don&#8217;t get inflected verbs with not in English. What&#8217;s going on?&#8221; Indeed, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/2011\/01\/24\/hw1-note-about-the-last-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;HW1: Note about the last question&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx540s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}