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Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

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Paperback | 16 March 2006

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A good deal of work in language acquisition has been devoted to children's interpretation of sentences that contain the universal quantifier, e. g. , every in English. It has been observed in several experimental studies and across several languages that some school-age children experience difficulty in interpreting such sentences (e. g. , Inhelder & Piaget, 1964; Roeper & de Villiers, 1991; Philip, 1995). Non-adult responses from children have been found in various conditions, including the circumstance exemplified in the picture in Figure 1, where three boys are each riding an elephant and a fourth elephant (referred to as the 'extra-object') is not being ridden. Some children who are shown such a picture sometimes respond No to the question in (1) relative to this picture: (1) Is every boy riding an elephant? Figure 1. The Extra-Object Condition To justify their negative answer to the question in (1), children often point to the extra object, i. e. , the elephant that is not being ridden. This reply has been called the symmetrical response or the exhaustive pairing response since children who give this kind of response seem to interpret the question to be about the symmetry (i. e. , one-to-one relation) between the set of entities denoted by the subject noun (the boys) and the set denoted by the object noun (the elephants).

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Psychology Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Acquisition and Interpretation
A Brief Introduction
The Development of The Syntax-Semantics Interface
Mismatches of Form and Interpretation
Watching Noun Phrases Emerge: Seeking Compositionality
Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Complement Tense
Acquiring Universal Quantification
Everybody Knows
The Effect of Context on Children's Interpretations of Universally Quantified Sentences
Structure and Meaning in the Acquisition of Scope
Time in The Language of a Learner
Time for Children: An Integrated Stage Model of Aspect and Tense
State Change and Temporal Reference in Inuktitut Child Language
Temporal Adverbials and Early Tense and Aspect Markers in the Acquisition of Dutch
Finiteness and its Development
On Finiteness
Functions of Finiteness in Child Language
Focus Particles in Child Language
Additive Particles and Scope Marking in Child German
(Un)Stressed Ook in Child Dutch
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