Napoleon Katsos
List of John Benjamins publications for which Napoleon Katsos plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0929-0907 | E-ISSN 1569-9943
2023 Monolingual and bilingual children’s performance learning words from ostensive teaching Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 31–58 | Article
Children who grow up exposed to more than one language face a range of challenges and developmental environments which differ from those of monolinguals. Recently, studies have suggested that this may lead to differences in the development of pragmatic skills and sensitivity to socio-pragmatic… read more
2022 Language competence and beyond: Understanding the lived experience of bilingualism for autistic people Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 65–70 | Commentary
2019 Listener-adapted speech: Bilinguals adapt in a more sensitive way Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:3, pp. 376–397 | Article
While a significant amount of research has focussed on whether bilingualism bestows advantages in cognitive skills, perspective-taking and Theory of Mind, less is known about the effect of bilingualism in communicative tasks where these and related skills may be called for. This study examines… read more
2017 Why some children accept under-informative utterances: Lack of competence or Pragmatic Tolerance? Pragmatics & Cognition 24:2, pp. 297–313 | Article
Binary judgement on under-informative utterances (e.g. Some horses jumped over the fence, when all horses did) is the most widely used methodology to test children’s ability to generate implicatures. Accepting under-informative utterances is considered a failure to generate implicatures. We… read more
2014 Scalar Implicature Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 183–198 | Article
Children younger than 5½ years of age do not draw inferences based on the quantity of information expressed (e.g. the inference that ‘some of the animals are sleeping’ implies ‘not all the animals are sleeping’) at the rates that adults do. Explanations of this difficulty include limited processing… read more
2012 Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usage What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher (eds.), pp. 229–250 | Article
Recent work on numerically-quantified expressions has aimed to identify which components of their meaning are semantic and which are pragmatic. Pragmatically-oriented accounts assign a crucial role to contextual factors, such as the level of information requested in the preceding discourse and the… read more