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Item Bootstrapping the Meanings of Each & Every(2020) Griffith, Meagan; Knowlton, Tyler; Lidz, JeffreyThe universal quantifiers "each" & "every" have similar truth conditions, but differ slightly in representation. "Each" often has an individual-based representation, while "every" has a set-based representation. In this study, we investigate not only how learners might arrive at these representations, but also whether or not there may be signal in the distributional differences in parents' speech that kids may use to learn the meanings of "each" & "every". To do this, we conducted a corpus investigation of child directed speech, that included the quantifier's "each" and "every", in the CHILDES corpus.Item Do 4-year-olds employ island constraints during sentence processing?(2020) Hochmuth, Gabriella; Hirzel, Mina; Lidz, JeffreyPrevious research has proven that adults and children interpret and process filler-gap dependencies actively. However, in environments where a filler-gap dependency is impossible (like islands), adults no longer actively resolve filler-gap dependencies. By age 4, children have knowledge of relative clause island constraints. Does children's processing of wh-questions show knowledge of grammatical constraints? Do children use knowledge of islands to process sentences in real time? The goal of this poster is to design an experiment to test these questions.