Some knowledge children dont lack
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3987488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Gualmini (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling.2004.034 |
| OpenAlex | W2036700503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
| References cited | 13 |
Experimental studies on children's understanding of indefinite NPs and negation report a systematic non-adult interpretation of sentences like The detective didn't find some guys (see Musolino 1998). In this article, we question whether these findings require a grammatical explanation. We draw upon the observation that negative statements are generally used to point out discrepancies between the facts and the listener's expectations, and that this felicity condition was not satisfied in previous studies. The findings of a truth value judgment task show that children's interpretation of indefinites in negative sentences is adultlike, when the felicity conditions associated with negative statements are satisfied
Linguistics · Sociology · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Children’s Interpretations of Numerically Quantified Expression Ambiguities
Children’s knowledge of double negative structures in Mandarin Chinese
On-line processing of English which -questions by children and adults
Negation and Opposition
Expletive Negation
Antecedent-Contained Deletion
Negation
Negation and First Language Acquisition
Vagueness
Quantitative Studies of the Use of Negative (Dependent) Expressions
Intervention Effects with Negation
Negation and Alternatives
The Typology of Negation
Negation in L2 Acquisition and Beyond
Politeness
Negation and the Brain
Metonymy
Negation and Constituent Ordering
The Expression of Negation in Sign Languages
The Possible Positioning of Negation
Word Senses
Form and Function of Negative, Tag, and Rhetorical Questions
The Neurology of Negation
Scalar Implicatures
Negative Fragment Answers
Metalinguistic Negation
Counterfactuals
Negative Quantifiers
Evolutionary Precursors of Negation in Non-Human Reasoning
Modals and Negation
Exhaustivity in It -Clefts
Understanding Negation
Negation in Non-Standard Varieties
Constraint-Based Pragmatic Processing
Evolution of Negative Dependencies
Negation and Presupposition
Theory of Mind
Negation, Prosody, and Gesture
Language Comprehension, Inference, and Alternatives
Plurality
Calculating the Scope of Negation
Genericity
Neg-raising
Focus
Negative Polarity Illusions
Pronouns
Affixal Negation
Verbal Uncertainty
The Morpho-Syntactic Nature of the Negative Marker
Individual Differences in Processing of Negative Operators
Quantifier Spreading
Presuppositions, Projection, and Accommodation
Reference and Informativeness
Double Negation Readings
Negative Concord and the Nature of Negative Concord Items
The Negative Cycle and Beyond
Types of Negation
Negation in Event Semantics
Modified Numerals
Distributivity
Adjective Meaning and Scales
Negative Polarity Items
Event (De)composition
The Neurobiology of Lexical and Sentential Negation
Negative Predicates
Negative Polarity Items
The Role of Pragmatics in Negation Change
Cognitive Precursors of Negation in Preverbal Infants
Minimizers and Maximizers as Different Types of Polarity Items
Spatial Terms
Denial
Ironic Utterances
Metaphor
Turn-Taking
Quantification
Prosody and Meaning
The Oxford Handbook of Negation
The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
Children’s exhaustive readings of questions
NPI Licensing and Beyond
Cross-linguistic scope ambiguity
When pragmatics matters more for truth-value judgments
No referential bias in children’s interpretation of it and there
On the source of children’s conjunctive interpretation of disjunction
On the source of children’s conjunctive interpretation of disjunction
Learnability issues in L2 Japanese
Effects of prosodic cues on topic continuity in child language production
Input Versus Output in the Acquisition of Negative Polarity
Why children aren't universally successful with quantification
Why is children’s interpretation of doubly quantified sentences non-isomorphic
Against Isomorphism and the Maxim of Charity in child language acquisition
Sources of difficulty in L2 scope judgments
When and why parts count
Children's On-line Processing of Scrambling in Japanese
On the Acquisition of Polarity Items
No "Chinese-speaking phase" in Chinese Children's Early Grammar - A Study of the Scope between Negation and Universal Quantification in Mandarin Chinese
Scope assignment in child language
Born in the USA
The Question-Answer Requirement for scope assignment
The nature of the semantic stimulus
The early growth of logic in the child
The contexts of plausible denial
Any
On the acquisition of the meaning of before and after
Quantifier Scope
Some facts one simply cannot deny
Positive Polarity – Negative Polarity
Navigating negative quantificational space
Why children aren't universally successful with quantification
| Unique citing works | 103 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 100 |