Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind

Project Information

LeibnizDream

Grant agreement ID: 856421

DOI

10.3030/856421

EC signature date 7 April 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 10 237 750,00

EU contribution

€ 10 237 750,00

Coordinated by

GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZENTREN BERLIN EV
Germany

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: a new argument from ellipsis

Author(s): Itai Bassi; Aron Hirsch; Tue Trinh
Published in: Proceedings of SALT 32, 2022, Page(s) 814–830, ISSN 2163-5951
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5358

A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction

Author(s): Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu
Published in: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 53-64, ISSN 2694-1791
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.3765/elm.3.5824

Complements and modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns

Author(s): Ivona Ilic
Published in: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 5720, ISSN 2473-8689
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5720

Coloring disjunction in child Romanian

Author(s): Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Lyn Tieu
Published in: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 65-74, ISSN 2694-1791
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.3765/elm.3.5822

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Errors of multiple exponence in child English: a study of past tense formation

Author(s): Johannes Hein, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou
Published in: Morphology, 2024, Page(s) 1-41, ISSN 1871-5621
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-024-09434-x

Is Negation Negative? (And a Discussion of Negative Concord in SOV Languages)

Author(s): Paloma Jeretič
Published in: Languages, Issue 10, 2025, Page(s) 130, ISSN 2226-471X
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/languages10060130

Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language

Author(s): Driemel, Imke; Hein, Johannes; Bill, Cory; Gonzalez, Aurore; Ilić, Ivona; Jeretič, Paloma; van Alem, Astrid
Published in: Languages, Issue Volume 8; Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 179, ISSN 2226-471X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/languages8030179

The <i>cum-sine</i> pattern in German child language: An argument for antonym decomposition

Author(s): Uli Sauerland, Marie-Christine Meyer, Kazuko Yatsushiro
Published in: Language Acquisition, 2024, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 1048-9223
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2024.2332452

<i>Kein</i> subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites

Author(s): Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Johannes Hein, Uli Sauerland
Published in: Language Acquisition, 2024, Page(s) 1-33, ISSN 1048-9223
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2024.2354219

Morphosyntactic doubling in language mixing : some puzzles and challenges

Author(s): Artemis Alexiadou
Published in: Linguistica Brunensia, Issue 73, 2025, Page(s) 8-39, ISSN 2336-4440
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
DOI: 10.5817/lb2025-38535

Is DP conjunction always complex? The view from child Georgian and Hungarian

Author(s): Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Imke Driemel, Tamar Makharoblidze, Lilla Pintér
Published in: Semantics and Pragmatics, Issue 18, 2025, Page(s) 1, ISSN 1937-8912
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
DOI: 10.3765/sp.18.5

Presuppositional Exhaustification

Author(s): Itai Bassi, Guillermo Del Pinal, Uli Sauerland
Published in: Semantics & Pragmatics, Issue 14, 2021, Page(s) 1–42, ISSN 1937-8912
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
DOI: 10.3765/sp.14.11

Do Languages Have Exclusive Disjunctions?

Author(s): Andreea C. Nicolae, Aliona Petrenco, Anastasia Tsilia, Paul Marty
Published in: Open Mind, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1469-1485, ISSN 2470-2986
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/opmi_a_00175

Reaching Meaning through Language: What can Children Tell Us about Distributivity?

Author(s): Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, Martina Riva, Maria Teresa Guasti
Published in: Journal of Child Language, 2025, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0305-0009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925000224

Double plural marking and the building blocks of nominals

Author(s): Artemis Alexiadou
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 1-35, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.11585

Generative Grammar: A Meaning First Approach

Author(s): Uli Sauerland, Artemis Alexiadou
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 11, 2020, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571295

Directional syncretism without directional rules

Author(s): Johannes Hein, Andrew Murphy
Published in: Morphology, 2025, ISSN 1871-5621
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-025-09443-4

Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations

Author(s): Jens Hopperdietzel, Artemis Alexiadou
Published in: Natural Language &amp; Linguistic Theory, 2025, ISSN 0167-806X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-025-09672-6

Undercompression errors as evidence for conceptual primitives

Author(s): Guasti, Maria Teresa; Alexiadou, Artemis; Sauerland, Uli
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1104930

Category-Sensitive Escape from Islands in Limbum and Asante Twi

Author(s): Johannes Hein
Published in: Languages, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 317, ISSN 2226-471X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/languages9100317

What do children do with do? Superfluous do in child English

Author(s): Martin, Fabienne; Ilić, Ivona; Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan; Alexiadou, Artemis
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 10, 2025, Page(s) 1–58, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.10651

Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian

Author(s): Adina Camelia Bleotu, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Slăvuţeanu, Anton Benz, Andreea Cristina Nicolae
Published in: Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 2385-4138
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.384

The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German

Author(s): Kazuko Yatsushiro, Vasfiye Geçkin, Veronika Harmati-Pap, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 1-43, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.8209

Free choice and presuppositional exhaustification

Author(s): Guillermo Del Pinal, Itai Bassi, Uli Sauerland
Published in: Semantics and Pragmatics, Issue 17, 2024, Page(s) 1-52, ISSN 1937-8912
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
DOI: 10.3765/sp.17.3

Conference proceedings (18)

An experimental study on kind and generic readings across languages: bare plural vs. definite plural

Author(s): Driemel, Imke; Hein, Johannes; Carioti, Desiré; Wünsch, Jakob; Tsakali, Vina; Alexiadou, Artemis; Sauerland, Uli; Guasti, Maria Teresa
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, 2022, Page(s) 353–359
Publisher: ILLC
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7533495

Presupposition projection from the scope of 'say'

Author(s): Aurore Gonzalez, Paloma Jeretič, Chiara Dal Farra, Johannes Hein
Published in: Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) 253–271
Publisher: Charles University
DOI: 10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1069

The interpretation of logophoric and ordinary pronouns in Ewe: an experimental study

Author(s): Silleresi, Silvia; Bassi, Itai; Bimpeh, Abigail Anne; Driemel, Imke; Nuworsu, Anastasia; Guasti, Maria Teresa
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 2024, Page(s) 344-350
Publisher: University of Amsterdam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14524470

Strict Logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo

Author(s): Itai Bassi, Imke Driemel, Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Silvia Silleresi
Published in: Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) 52–63
Publisher: Charles University
DOI: 10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1052

Children’s Wh-questions across Languages: Some Preliminary Results.

Author(s): Kazuko Yatsushiro, Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Silvia Silleresi, Alicia Avellana, Aijun Huang, Johnson F. Ilori, Gayathri G. Krishnan, Lilla Pintér, Maria Teresa Guasti, Uli Sauerland
Published in: BUCLD 46: Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2022, Page(s) 890-903, ISBN 978-1-57473-077-7
Publisher: Casacdilla Press

DUAL as a core concept and the pronounceability of alternatives

Author(s): Jeretic, Paloma; Gonzalez, Aurore; Bassi, Itai; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Sauerland, Uli
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 2024, Page(s) 181-187
Publisher: University of Amsterdam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14515420

On the anti-exhaustive inference of ya

Author(s): Nicolae, Andreea Cristina; Sudo, Yasutada; Yang, Muyi
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 2024
Publisher: University of Amsterdam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16793237

Wearing Causation on Its Sleeve: Overt cause in Child French Causatives

Author(s): Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou, Maria Teresa Guasti
Published in: BUCLD 46: Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2022, Page(s) 497-510, ISBN 978-1-57473-077-7
Publisher: Cascadilla Press

An Algebra of Thought that predicts key aspects of language structure

Author(s): Uli Sauerland, Itai Bassi, Cory Bill, Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Aron Hirsch, Paloma Jeretič, Marie-Christine Meyer, Andreea C. Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Artemis Alexiadou
Published in: Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) 589–608
Publisher: Charles University
DOI: 10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1088

Obligatory de se Logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo: Variation and Competition

Author(s): Bimpeh, Abigail Anne; Driemel, Imke; Bassi, Itai; Silleresi, Silvia
Published in: Proceedings of the 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 2024, Page(s) 1-10, ISBN 978-1-57473-482-9
Publisher: Cascadilla Proceedings Project
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14416622

Ignorance and attenuation

Author(s): Fălăuş, Anamaria; Nicolae, Andreea Cristina
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 2024
Publisher: University of Amsterdam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16793183

Child vs. machine language learning: Can the logical structure of human language unleash LLMs?

Author(s): Sauerland, Uli; Matthaei, Celia; Salfner, Felix
Published in: Proceedings of SCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models, 2025
Publisher: Cornell University Press
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.17304

As complex as they appear: Children's comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian

Author(s): Bill, Cory; Gonzalez, Aurore; Driemel, Imke; Makharoblidze, Tamar
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, 2022, Page(s) 38–44
Publisher: ILLC
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7533595

Errors of Multiple Exponence in Child Language

Author(s): Hein, Johannes; Driemel, Imke; Martin, Fabienne; Nie, Yining; Alexiadou, Artemis
Published in: Proceeding of the 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 2024, Page(s) 122-131, ISBN 978-1-57473-482-9
Publisher: Cascadilla Proceedings Project
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14416889

Negative concord in the acquisition of English and German: Some results from a corpus study

Author(s): Hein, Johannes; Bill, Cory; Driemel, Imke; Gonzalez, Aurore; Ilic, Ivona; Jeretic, Paloma
Published in: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2023, Page(s) 167-182, ISBN 978-0-914203-88-9
Publisher: The Chicago Linguistic Society
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10184205

Neg-raising with belief predicates as a scaleless implicature Authors

Author(s): Jeretič, Paloma
Published in: Proceedings of SALT 32, 2022, Page(s) 891–914, 2022
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5367

The third person is present: An argument from determiners in generic statements

Author(s): Alexiadou, Artemis; Hein, Johannes; Ilić, Ivona; Sauerland, Uli
Published in: Proceedings of NELS 54, 2024, Page(s) 31-44
Publisher: GLSA Publications
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14881870

Acquiring Japanese Passives: A Production Study

Author(s): Alexiadou, Artemis; Ilić, Ivona
Published in: BUCLD 47: Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2023, Page(s) 1-14, ISBN 978-1-57473-087-6
Publisher: Cascadilla Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8177573