Linguistically Aware – Episode March 11, 2025

Program: Linguistically Aware

Length: 33 minutes

Little Minds, Big Inferences: Cheryl Iwanchuk on Children's Understanding of Ambiguity (Part 1)

In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with Cheryl Iwanchuk, a current Master’s student in linguistics to talk about her research on how children acquire the ability to make inferences from ambiguous language. We talk about what “contrastive inferences” are and the differences between kids and adults in the way they understand these types of inferences!