Ailís Cournane

Ailís Cournane

New York University

H-index: 11

North America-United States

About Ailís Cournane

Ailís Cournane, With an exceptional h-index of 11 and a recent h-index of 11 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at New York University, specializes in the field of First Language Acquisition, Language Change, Semantics, Modality, Theory of Mind.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers

The role of the conservative learner in the rise and fall of verb-second

Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of the input

Finding the force: How children discern possibility and necessity modals

If they must, they will: children overcommit to likeliness inferences from deontic modals

Changing Facts in Children’s Counterfactual Reasoning

Wishes before ifs: mapping" fake" past tense to counterfactuality in wishes and conditionals

Adapting acquisition methodologies to study modality in underdescribed languages

Ailís Cournane Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Citations(all)

325

Citations(since 2020)

279

Cited By

123

hIndex(all)

11

hIndex(since 2020)

11

i10Index(all)

12

i10Index(since 2020)

12

Email

University Profile Page

New York University

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Ailís Cournane Skills & Research Interests

First Language Acquisition

Language Change

Semantics

Modality

Theory of Mind

Top articles of Ailís Cournane

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers

Language Acquisition

Ailís Cournane

Mina Hirzel

Valentine Hacquard

2024/1/2

The role of the conservative learner in the rise and fall of verb-second

Journal of Historical Syntax

Ailis Cournane

Espen Klævik-Pettersen

2023/9/27

Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of the input

Journal of Semantics

Annemarie Van Dooren

Anouk Dieuleveut

Ailís Cournane

Valentine Hacquard

2022/11

Finding the force: How children discern possibility and necessity modals

Natural Language Semantics

Anouk Dieuleveut

Annemarie Van Dooren

Ailís Cournane

Valentine Hacquard

2022/9

If they must, they will: children overcommit to likeliness inferences from deontic modals

Glossa: a journal of general linguistics

Ailís Cournane

Dunja Veselinović

Dunja Veselinoviæ

2022/8/3

Changing Facts in Children’s Counterfactual Reasoning

Ioana Grosu

Ailís Cournane

2022

Wishes before ifs: mapping" fake" past tense to counterfactuality in wishes and conditionals

Language Development Research

Maxime A Tulling

Ailís Cournane

2022/12/31

Adapting acquisition methodologies to study modality in underdescribed languages

Modality in Underdescribed Languages: Methods and Insights

Ailís Cournane

Valentine Hacquard

2022/11/7

Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts

Language Acquisition

Ailís Cournane

2021/7/3

Neural correlates of modal displacement and discourse-updating under (un) certainty

Eneuro

Maxime Tulling

Ryan Law

Ailís Cournane

Liina Pylkkänen

2021/1/1

Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals

Experiments in Linguistic Meaning

Anouk Dieuleveut

Ailís Cournane

Valentine Hacquard

2021/7/30

A within-subjects comparison of the acquisition of quantity-related inferences

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Alicia Parrish

Ailís Cournane

2020/3/23

The grammatical source of missing epistemic meanings from modal verbs in child BCS

Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics

Dunja Veselinović

Ailís Cournane

2020

La production épistémique chez l’enfant francophone: complexité syntaxique et ordre d’acquisition

Arborescences

Ailís Cournane

Sandrine Tailleur

2020/12

Learning modals: A grammatical perspective

Language and Linguistics Compass

Ailís Cournane

2020/10

Leaving obligations behind: Epistemic incrementation in preschool English

Language Learning and Development

Ailís Cournane

Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux

2020/7/2

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