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Relative gradable adjective recursion such as small small big mushrooms is more challenging for children than possessive recursion such as the deer’s friend’s sister’s mushrooms
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 5294 ; 2473-8689 (2022)
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Abstract:
Our experiment investigates whether children handle recursive possessives (R-Poss) in a more adult-like manner than recursive relative gradable adjectives (R-RGA). While the abstract notion of indirect recursion underlies both categories, we ask whether individual syntactic-semantic properties determine different acquisition paths in English for R-Poss and R-RGA at the 2-Level (the deer’s friend’s mushrooms, small big mushrooms) and at the 3-Level (the deer’s friend’s sister’s mushrooms, small small big mushrooms). The results indicate that older children perform better than younger children on 2- and 3-Level R-Poss. However, this trend is not observed for R-RGA where both age groups perform similarly, successfully handling 2- but not 3-Level R-RGA. Analysis of individual results reveal that children who are successful with comprehension and production at 3-Level R-RGA are also successful with 3-Level R-Poss, but not the other way around. We conclude that 3-Level R-RGA is more challenging than 3-Level R-Poss, arguing that this difficulty arises from R-RGA syntax-semantics which involves a set-subset relation and gradability relative to comparative scales.
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Keyword:
adjectives; English L1; gradability; Language Acquisition; possessives; recursion; Semantics; set; subset; Syntax; syntax-semantics interface
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5294
http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5294
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Children are more sensitive to the Recursive Set-Subset Ordering than to Adjective Ordering Restrictions
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 5267 ; 2473-8689 (2022)
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Poster Presentation for "What’s the Meaning of a Nominal Root? Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity" ...
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Poster Presentation for "What’s the Meaning of a Nominal Root? Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity" ...
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Roll-Up is too complex for Romanian 5-year-olds: Evidence from recursive adjectives
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 6, No 1 (2021): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 133–143 ; 2473-8689 (2021)
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Shadow playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic adverbs are a kind of magic!
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In: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning; Vol 1 (2021); 59-70 ; 2694-1791 (2021)
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Where truth and optimality part. Experiments on implicatures with epistemic adverbs
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In: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning; Vol 1 (2021); 47-58 ; 2694-1791 (2021)
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