Valentine Hacquard

Research

Representative Work

Chen, Jing Yi, and Valentine Hacquard (2026). 'Being pragmatic about anankastic conditionals'. Semantics of Natural Languages 1.
Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out modal force: Evidence from children's production and input'. Natural Language Semantics 30, pp. 269-310. DOI 10.1007/s11050-022-09196-4
Hacquard, Valentine (2022) ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’. Journal of Child Language, pp. 1–24, keynote article. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000605
Hacquard, Valentine and Jeffrey Lidz (2018) 'Children's attitude problems: Bootstrapping verb meaning from syntax and pragmatics'. Mind and Language, pp.1-24.
Hacquard, Valentine and Ailis Cournane (2016) 'Themes and variations in the expression of modality'. In Proceedings of NELS 46, pp.21-42.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2014) 'Factivity, belief and discourse', In L. Crnic and U. Sauerland (eds.) The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. 69-90.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2013). 'Epistemics and attitudes'. Semantics and Pragmatics 6.8, pp.1-59.
Hacquard, Valentine (2011) 'Modality'. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, and P. Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. HSK 33.2 Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1484-1515.
Hacquard, Valentine (2010) 'On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries'. Natural Language Semantics 18(1), pp. 79-114.
Hacquard, Valentine (2009) 'On the interaction of aspect and modal auxiliaries'. Linguistics and Philosophy 32, pp. 279-312.

Latest Work

Chen, Jing Yi, and Valentine Hacquard (2026). 'Being pragmatic about anankastic conditionals'. Semantics of Natural Languages 1.
Jesus, Alice, Elizabeth Swanson, Jeffrey Lidz, and Valentine Hacquard, (2026) ‘Temporal Orientation is a Robust Cue to Attitude Class in Child-Directed Speech’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 50.
Cournane, Ailis, Chiara Repetti-Ludlow, Anouk Dieuleveut, and Valentine Hacquard (2025). 'Word learning challenges explain non-adult possibility language comprehension in preschoolers'. Developmental Psychology 62(5), 1048-1066. doi: 10.1037/dev0002061.
Chen, Jing Yi, and Valentine Hacquard (2025). 'A pragmatic solution to anankastic conditionals'. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.
Ying, Jack, Valentine Hacquard, Alexander Williams, and Jeffrey Lidz (2024). 'Children do not overuse "the" in natural production'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 48.
Cournane, Ailis, Mina Hirzel, and Valentine Hacquard (2024). 'Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on ‘force’ and ‘flavor’ with young preschoolers'. Language Acquisition 31(1). DOI 10.1080/10489223.2023.2173074
Goodhue, Daniel, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023) ‘18-month-olds understand the links between declaratives and assertions, and interrogatives and questions’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
Kurokami, Hisao, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023) ‘English-acquiring 4-year-olds’ understanding of the interaction between too and focus’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
Hacquard, Valentine (2022) ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’. Journal of Child Language, pp. 1–24, keynote article. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000605
van Dooren, Annemarie, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of the input'. Journal of Semantics.39(4), pp. 581-616
Hacquard, Valentine, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'On the acquisition of attitude verbs'. Annual Reviews in Linguistics 8(1), pp. 193-212.
Hacquard, Valentine (2022). 'Logic and the lexicon: Insights from modality'. In A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, and L. Gleitman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yang, Yu'an, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'Do children know whanything? 3-year-olds understand the ambiguity of wh-phrases in Mandarin'. Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2021.2020275
Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out modal force: Evidence from children's production and input'. Natural Language Semantics 30, pp. 269-310. DOI 10.1007/s11050-022-09196-4
Huang, Nick, Aaron White, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax'. Language Acquisition 21(1), pp.27-53.

More Papers

Chen, Jing Yi, and Valentine Hacquard (2026). 'Being pragmatic about anankastic conditionals'. Semantics of Natural Languages 1.
Swanson, Elizabeth, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (submitted). '18-month-olds’ understanding of clause types and their functions'. UMD, ms.
Ying, Jack, Valentine Hacquard, Alexander Williams, and Jeffrey Lidz (accepted). '(Under)estimating Preschoolers’ Knowledge in the Acquisition of The'. Language Acquisition.
Cournane, Ailis, Chiara Repetti-Ludlow, Anouk Dieuleveut, and Valentine Hacquard (2025). 'Word learning challenges explain non-adult possibility language comprehension in preschoolers'. Developmental Psychology 62(5), 1048-1066. doi: 10.1037/dev0002061.
Chen, Jing Yi, and Valentine Hacquard (2025). 'A pragmatic solution to anankastic conditionals'. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.
Ying, Jack, Valentine Hacquard, Alexander Williams, and Jeffrey Lidz (2024). 'Children do not overuse "the" in natural production'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 48.
Cournane, Ailis, Mina Hirzel, and Valentine Hacquard (2023). 'Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on ‘force’ and ‘flavor’ with young preschoolers'. Language Acquisition. DOI 10.1080/10489223.2023.2173074
Goodhue, Daniel, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023) ‘18-month-olds understand the links between declaratives and assertions, and interrogatives and questions’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
Kurokami, Hisao, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2023) ‘English-acquiring 4-year-olds’ understanding of the interaction between too and focus’. In Proceedings of BUCLD 47.
Hacquard, Valentine (2022) ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’. Journal of Child Language, 1–24, keynote article. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000605
van Dooren, Annemarie, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of the input'. Journal of Semantics.39(4), pp. 581-616
Hacquard, Valentine, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'On the acquisition of attitude verbs'. Annual Reviews in Linguistics 8(1), pp. 193-212.
Hacquard, Valentine (2022). 'Logic and the lexicon: Insights from modality'. In A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, and L. Gleitman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yang, Yu'an, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'Do children know whanything? 3-year-olds understand the ambiguity of wh-phrases in Mandarin'. Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2021.2020275
Huang, Nick, Yang, Yu'an, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'Learning Subcategorization Properties of Attitude Verbs in Wh-in situ Languages'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 46.
Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2022). 'Figuring out modal force: Evidence from children's production and input'. Natural Language Semantics 30, pp. 269-310. DOI 10.1007/s11050-022-09196-4
Huang, Nick, Aaron White, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2022). 'Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax'. Language Acquisition 21(1), pp.27-53.
Cournane, Ailis and Valentine Hacquard (2022). 'Methods for studying modality in language acquisition'. Modality in underdescribed languages: Methods and Insights. De Gruyter.
Kurokami, Hisao, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2021).'Children's interpretation of additive particles mo 'also' and also in Japanese and English'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 45.
Yang, Yu'an, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2021). 'Acquisition of belief reports by Mandarin speaking children'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 45.
Dieuleveut, Anouk, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2021). 'Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals'. In Proceedings of ELM 1.
Goodhue, Daniel, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2021). 'The effect of intonation on the illocutionary force of declaratives in child comprehension'. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25.
Zaitsu, Anissa, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2021). 'Clause types and speech acts in speech to children'. In Proceedings of ELM 1.
Harrigan, Kaitlyn, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2019). 'Hope for syntactic bootstrapping'. Language 95(4), pp.642-682.
Hacquard, Valentine (2020). The child in semantics'. In R. Bhatt, I. Frana, P. Menendez-Benito (eds.) A Festschrift for Angelika Kratzer.
Hacquard, Valentine (2020). Actuality Entailments' In L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann, T. E. Zimmermann (eds.) Companion to Semantics. Wiley.
Anand, Pranav, Jane Grimshaw, and Valentine Hacquard (2019). 'Sentence embedding predicates, factivity and subjects'. In C. Condoravdi (ed.) A Festschrift for Lauri Karttunen.
Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2019). 'Learning modal force: evidence from children's production and input'. In Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium.
van Dooren, Annemarie, Maxime Tulling, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2019). 'Discovering modal polysemy: lexical aspect might help'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 43.
Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailis Cournane, and Valentine Hacquard (2019). 'Acquiring the force of modals: sig you guess what sig means?'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 43.
Hacquard, Valentine and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Children's attitude problems: Bootstrapping verb meaning from syntax and pragmatics'. Mind and Language, pp.1-24.
Wellwood, Alexis, Roumyana Pancheva, Valentine Hacquard, and Colin Phillips (2018).'The anatomy of a comparative illusion'. Journal of Semantics. doi:10.1093/jos/ffy014
Brockmann, Saskia, Sara McConnell, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Children's comprehension of pronouns and definites. Are children sensitive to contextual requirements?'. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22.
White, Aaron Steven, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Semantic information and the syntax of propositional attitude verbs'. Cognitive Science 42, 416-456.
Dudley, Rachel, Meredith Rowe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'The difficulty of knowing: discovering the contrast between think and know'. Under review.
White, Aaron Steven, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'The labeling problem in syntactic bootstrapping: Main clause syntax and the acquisition of propositional attitude verbs'. In K. Syrett and S. Arunachalam (eds.) Semantics in Acquisition, Trends in Language Acquisition Research.
Harrigan, Kaitlyn, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Three year olds' understanding of desire reports is robust to conflict'. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Huang, Nick, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphosyntactically-poor language'. Proceedings of BUCLD 42.
Dudley, Rachel, Meredith Rowe, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2018). 'Discovering the factivity of know'. In Proceedings of SALT 27.
van Dooren, A., A. Dieuleveut, A. Cournane, and V. Hacquard (2017). Learning what 'must' and 'can' must and can mean. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium. Supplement.
Lewis, Shevaun, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2017). '“think” pragmatically: children's interpretation of belief reports'. Language Learning and Development 13(4), 357-374.
White, Aaron Steven, Valentine Hacquard, Philip Resnik, and Jeffrey Lidz (2017). 'The contextual modulation of semantic information'. (Under review).
Hacquard, Valentine and Ailis Cournane (2016). 'Themes and variations in the expression of modality'. In Proceedings of NELS 46, pp.21-42.
Hacquard, Valentine (2016). 'Modals: Meaning categories?'. In J. Blaszczak, A. Giannakidou, D. Klimek-Jankowska, K. Migdalski (eds.) Mood, aspect, modality revisited: New answers to old questions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 45-74.
Harrigan, Kaitlyn, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2016). 'Syntactic bootstrapping and the acquisition of attitude verbs: think, want, and hope'. In K. Kim et al. (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 33, 196-206.
Altshuler, Daniel, Valentine Hacquard, Thomas Roberts, and Aaron White (2015). 'On double access, cessation and parentheticality'. In Proceedings of SALT 25.
Moyer, Morgan, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2015). '2-year-olds' comprehension of personal pronouns'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 39.
Dudley, Rachel, Naho Orita, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2015). 'Three year olds' understanding of know and think'. In F. Schwarz (ed.) Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics Series, volume 45. Springer International Publishing, 241-262.
Hacquard, Valentine (2014). 'Bootstrapping attitudes'. In T. Snider (ed.) Proceedings of SALT 24, 330-352.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2014). 'Factivity, belief and discourse', In L. Crnic and U. Sauerland (eds.) The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. 69-90.
White, Aaron Steven, Rachel Dudley, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2014). 'Discovering classes of attitude verbs using subcategorization frame distributions'. In Proceedings of NELS 43.
Dudley, Rachel, Naho Orita, Morgan Moyer, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2014).'Factivity in three year olds' understanding of know and think'. In Proceedings of BUCLD 38.
Hacquard, Valentine (2013). 'On the grammatical category of modality'. In M. Aloni, M. Franke, F. Roelofsen (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2013). 'Epistemics and attitudes'. Semantics and Pragmatics 6.8, pp.1-59.
Hacquard, Valentine and Alexis Wellwood (2012). 'Embedding epistemic modals in English: a corpus-based study'. Semantics and Pragmatics 5.4, pp.1-29.
Lewis, Shevaun, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz (2012). 'The semantics of pragmatics of belief reports in preschoolers'. In A. Chereches (ed.) Proceedings of SALT 22, pp. 226-246.
Wellwood, Alexis, Valentine Hacquard, and Roumyana Pancheva (2012). 'Measuring and comparing individuals and events'. Journal of Semantics 29(2), pp. 207-228.
Hacquard, Valentine (2011). 'Modality'. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, P. Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. HSK 33.2 Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1484-1515.
Hacquard, Valentine (2010). 'On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries'. Natural Language Semantics 18(1), pp. 79-114.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2010). 'The role of the imperfect in Romance counterfactuals'. In M. Prinzhorn, V. Schmitt, S. Zobel (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, pp. 37-50.
Hacquard, Valentine (2009). 'On the interaction of aspect and modal auxiliaries'. Linguistics and Philosophy 32, pp. 279-312.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2009). 'Epistemics with attitude'. In Proceedings of SALT 18.
Sowalsky, Emily, Valentine Hacquard, and Tom Roeper (2009). 'PP opacity'. In J. Crawford et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 253-261.
Hacquard, Valentine (2008). 'Restructuring and implicative properties of volere'. In A. Gronn (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2008). 'When the present is all in the past'. In L. de Saussure, J. Moeschler, G. Puskas (eds.) Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Mood and Aspect. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Gualmini, Andrea, Sarah Hulsey, Valentine Hacquard, and Danny Fox (2008). 'The Question-Answer requirement for scope assignment'. Natural Language Semantics 16, pp. 205-237.
Hacquard, Valentine, MaryAnn Walter, and Alec Marantz (2007). 'The effects of inventory on vowel perception in French and Spanish: an MEG study'. Brain and Language 100(3), pp. 295-300.
Hacquard, Valentine (2007). 'Speaker-oriented vs. subject-oriented modals: a split in implicative behavior'. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11.
Hacquard, Valentine (2006), 'Aspects of too and enough constructions'. In E. Georgala and J. Howell (eds.) Proceedings of SALT 15. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
Hacquard, Valentine (2006). Aspects of modality. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT.
Walter, Mary Ann and Valentine Hacquard (2004). 'MEG evidence for phonological underspecification'.Proceedings of BioMag 2004. [longer version]

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