Athulya Aravind | Research

Language Acquisition

2024. Why do children think words are mutually exclusive? with Gabor Brody (1st author) and Roman Feiman. Psychological Science.
2023. Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives. with Loes Koring. Language Acquisition.
2023. "Overly Strong Interpretations of Modal Verbs In Child Language". with Frank Staniszewski (1st author) and Rachel Stacey. Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
2023. Principles of presupposition in development. with Danny Fox and Martin Hackl. Linguistics and Philosophy.
2022. "Non-uniformities in the Development of Presupposition Projection in If-Conditionals." with Sherry Chen (1st author) and Cindy Torma. Proceedings of BUCLD 46.
2021. "More than the sum of its parts: Acquiring semantically complex quantifiers". with Cindy Torma (1st author) and Gabor Brody. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2021. Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults. with Kristen Syrett (1st author). Journal of Child Language.
2020. The Nature of the Semantic Stimulus: The Acquisition of Every as a Case Study. with Ezer Rasin (1st author). Natural Language Semantics.
2018. Fast mapping word meanings across trials: young children forget all but their first guess. with Jill de Villiers, Amy, Pace, Hannah Valentine, Roberta Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsch-Pasek, Aquiles Iglesias and Mary Wilson. Cognition.
2017. "Syntactic and pragmatic factors in children’s comprehension of cleft constructions". with Martin Hackl and Ken Wexler. Language Acquisition.
2017. "Children's quantification with 'every' over Time". with 12 others. Glossa.
2017. "Factivity and at-issueness in the acquisition of forget and remember. with Martin Hackl. Proceedings of BUCLD 41.
2017. "Lexical and syntactic effects on auxiliary selection: Evidence from Child French". with Veronica Boyce (1st author) and Martin Hackl. Proceedings of BUCLD 41.

Syntax/Semantics

to appear. Malayalam long-distance anaphor taan: a null theory. Proceedings of FASAL 14.
2024. Evaluating the Effectiveness of AI Source Disclosure in Human–AI Communication with Gabor Brody (1st author), Vincent Rouillard and Daniel Asherov. An MIT Exploration of Generative AI,An MIT Exploration of Generative AI,.
2021. "Locality in Malayalam Anaphor Binding". Proceedings of WCCFL 39.
2019. "Successive cyclicity in DPs: Evidence from Mongolian nominalized clauses". Linguistic Inquiry.
2017."Licensing long-distance wh-in-situ in Malayalam". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
2017. A-bar interactions and feature geometries.A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky.
2017. Against a unified treatment of obligatory presupposition triggers". Proceedings of SALT 27. with Martin Hackl

Dissertation

2018. Presuppositions in context. MIT.