Anna Papafragou


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Papafragou, A. (2000). Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Amsterdam/New York: Elsevier Science.
 

Journal Articles

Papafragou, A., Hulbert, J., & Trueswell, J. (in press). Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements. Cognition.

Papafragou, A., Cassidy, K., & Gleitman, L. (2007). When we think about thinking: The acquisition of belief verbs. Cognition 105: 125-165. Cognition's 2007'Most Downloaded Articles'  

Papafragou, A., Li, P., Choi, Y., & Han, C. (2007). Evidentiality in language and cognition. Cognition 103: 253-299. Cognition's 2007'Most Downloaded Articles'  

Papafragou, A. (2006). From scalar semantics to implicature: Children's interpretation of aspectuals. Journal of Child Language 33: 721-757.

Papafragou, A. (2006). Epistemic modality and truth conditions. Lingua 116: 1688-1702.

Hurewitz, F., Papafragou, A., Gleitman, L., & Gelman, R. (2006). Asymmetries in the acquisition of numbers and quantifiers. Language Learning and Development 2: 77-96.

Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L. (2006). When English proposes what Greek presupposes: The cross-linguistic encoding of motion events. Cognition 98: B75-87.

Papafragou, A., & Schwarz, N. (2005/6). Most wanted. Language Acquisition 13 (Special Issue: On the Acquisition of Quantification): 207-251.

Gleitman, L., Cassidy, K., Nappa, R., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2005). Hard words. Language Learning and Development 1: 23-64.

Papafragou, A., & Tantalou, N. (2004). Children's computation of implicatures. Language Acquisition 12: 71-82.

Papafragou, A., & Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Experiments at the Semantics-Pragmatics interface. Cognition 86: 253-282.

Papafragou, A., Massey C., & Gleitman, L. (2002). Shake, rattle, 'n' roll: The representation of motion in language and cognition. Cognition 84: 189-219.

Papafragou, A. (2001). Mindreading and verbal communication. Mind and Language 17: 55-67.

Papafragou, A. (2000). On 'speech-act modality'. Journal of Pragmatics 32: 519-538.

Papafragou, A. (1998). The acquisition of modality: Implications for theories of semantic representation. Mind and Language 13: 370-99.

Papafragou, A. (1998). Inference and word meaning: The case of modal auxiliaries. Lingua 105: 1-47.

Papafragou, A. (1996). On metonymy. Lingua 99: 169-95.

Papafragou, A. (1996). Figurative language and the semantics-pragmatics distinction. Language and Literature 5: 179-93.

 

Book Chapters & Reviews (selection)

Papafragou, A. (to appear). Space and the language-cognition interface. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence & S. Stich (eds.), The innate mind: Foundations and the future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Li, P., Abarbanell, L., Papafragou, A., & Gleitman (to appear). Spatial reasoning without spatial words in Tenejapan Mayans. In B. Malt et al. (eds.), Words and the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Trueswell, J., Papafragou, A., & Choi, Y. (to appear). Syntactic and referential processes: What develops? In E. Gibson & N. Perlmutter (eds.), The processing and acquisition of reference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Papafragou, A. (2005). Relations between language and thought: Individuation and the count/mass distinction. In C. Lefebvre & H. Cohen (eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science. New York: Elsevier Science.

Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A. (2005). Language and thought. In K. Holyoak & R. Morrison (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, 633-661. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Papafragou, A. (2004). Review of R. Carston (2002), Thoughts and Utterances. Lingua 114: 621-628.

Papafragou, A. (2002). Modality and theory of mind: Perspectives from language development and autism. In S. Barbiers, F. Beukema & W. van der Wurff (eds.), Modality and its Interaction With the Verbal System, 185-204. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Papafragou, A. (2001). Linking early linguistic and conceptual capacities: The role of theory of mind. In A. Cienki, B. Luka & M. Smith (eds.), Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language IV, 169-184. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

 

Conference Proceedings & Working Papers (selection)

 

Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S. (in press). On the acquisition of motion verbs cross-linguistically. Proceedings from the 7th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ioannina: University of Ioannina.

 

Papafragou, A. & Ozturk, O. (in press). The acquisition of evidentiality and source monitoring.  Proceedings from the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

 

Ozturk, O. & Papafragou, A. (2007). The acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish. Proceedings from the 31st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

 

Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S. (2007). Lexical and structural cues for acquiring motion verbs cross-linguistically. Proceedings from the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

 

Papafragou, A. & Ozturk, O. (2007). Children's acquisition of evidentiality.  Proceedings from the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Papafragou, A. & Ozturk, O. (2007). Children's acquisition of epistemic modality. Proceedings from GALANA 2. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Papafragou, A. & Ozturk, O. (2007). On the acquisition of modality. Proceedings from the 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Dept. of Linguistics, UPenn.

Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L. (2007). Motion event conflation and clause structure. Proceedings from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago.

Li, P., Abarbanell, L.,& Papafragou, A. (2005). Spatial reasoning skills in Tenejapan Mayans. Proceedings from the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Papafragou, A. (2003). Aspectuality and scalar structure. Proceedings from the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Papafragou, A. (2002). Aspectuality and scalar implicatures. Proceedings from the 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Dept. of Linguistics, UPenn.

Papafragou, A. (2002). Scalar implicatures in language acquisition: Some evidence from Modern Greek. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago: CLS.

Papafragou, A., & Musolino, J. (2002). The pragmatics of number. Proceedings from the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002.

Papafragou, A., & Li, P. (2001). Evidential morphology and theory of mind. Proceedings from the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L. (2001). Motion events in language and cognition. Proceedings from the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Papafragou, A. (2000). Early communication: Beyond speech-act theory. Proceedings of 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Papafragou, A. (1998). Experience and concept attainment: Some critical remarks. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 10: 109-41.

Papafragou, A. (1997). Modality in language development: A reconsideration of the evidence. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 9: 77-105.

Papafragou, A. (1996). On generics. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 8: 165-98.

Papafragou, A. (1995). Metonymy and relevance. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 7: 141-75.

 


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