The Question-Answer Requirement for scope assignment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4568972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Gualmini (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, corresponding author), Sarah Hulsey (IIT@MIT), Valentine Hacquard (0000-0003-3854-0312, University of Maryland, College Park), Danny Fox (IIT@MIT) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Natural Language Semantics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-854X • E-ISSN: 1572-865X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11050-008-9029-z |
| OpenAlex | W2139827754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 83 |
| References cited | 20 |
This paper focuses on children’s interpretation of sentences containing negation and a quantifier (e.g., The detective didn’t find some guys). Recent studies suggest that, although children are capable of accessing inverse scope interpretations of such sentences, they resort to surface scope to a larger extent than adults. To account for children’s behavioral pattern, we propose a new factor at play in Truth Value Judgment tasks: the Question–Answer Requirement (QAR). According to the QAR, children (and adults) must interpret the target sentence that they evaluate as an answer to a question that is made salient by the discourse
Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Natural language processing · Negation · Philosophy of language · Programming language · Salient · Sentence · Syntax · Truth value · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Topic Modeling · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |