This series of studies explores the early development of visuo-spatial human body knowledge in infancy. To achieve this, infants’ responses to typical and scrambled human body shapes were tested. As reviewed above, previous work showed that in a preferential looking paradigm, only 18month-olds appeared to discriminate scrambled from typical human body shapes. This pattern is inconclusive, howev...

Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause. I present a denotational semantics of interrogatives that naturally accounts for these two properties. It neither invokes movement or economy, nor posits lexical ambiguity between raised and in-situ occurrences of the same wh-phrase. My anal...

In Japanese a certain kind of phrase, which Kuroda (1965) calls "indetenninate", can function as a wh-phrase, existential quantifier or universal quantifier depending on context and the use of particles. I argue that "indetenninates" are contrastive-focused, and that the meanings of existential and universal quantifiers are made of (in)finite application of disjunction ("ka") and conjunction ("...