Take a look at our recent publications!


Children’s acquisition of Quantification

Rosenstein, L., Dretler, K., & Hackl, M. (2022). Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives with Differentials, To appear in the proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Chen, F. Rosenstein, L, and Hackl M. (in press). Quantifier-Spreading under Negation. To appear in the proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. link

Hackl, M., Sugawara, A., & Wexler, K. (2015). Question-Answer (In) Congruence in the acquisition of only. Proceedings of the 39th BUCLD. link


Children’s acquisition of more and fewer

Hackl, M., Apostoaie, E., and Rosenstein, L. (2021). Acquisition of Numerals, the Natural Numbers, and Amount Comparatives. In proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Pages 276-289. link


Children's acquisition of the conjunction and

Chen, S., Kobayashi, F., Koring, L., Bill, Rosenstein, L., Hackl, M. (2020). Comprehending and: The Acquisition of English Conjunction in Child Grammar. In Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference of Language Development. link

Chen, S., Rosenstein, L,. and Hackl, M. (2019). Facilitation effects of QUD and event type on negative sentences. Poster Presented at CUNY 2019


Children's acquisition of either and too

Francis, N., Jones, S., Rosenstein, Hackl. (2021). On the acquistion of either and too. In Proceedings of ELM 1: 159-171. link

Francis, N., Jones, S., Rosenstein, Hackl. (2019). The path to polarity sensitivity: Acquisition of either and too. Talk presented at Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, September 9.


Children's acquisition of even

Gowda Y., Newman E., Rosenstein, L. and Hackl M. (2020) "Scalar Inferences in the Acquisition of Even". Frontiers in Communication. 5:593634. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.593634

Gowda Y., Newman E., Rosenstein, L., Hackl, M. (2018). “Polarity sensitivity of even in early child grammar.” Learnability in a Parametric World (Workshop at Romance Turn IX), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Sep. 2018. Talk.