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Children's Quantification With Every Over Time
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Clancy, Jeanine (authoraut); Spinrad, Tracy (authoraut); Valiente, Carlos (authoraut); Landry, Susan H. (authoraut); Aravind, Athulya (authoraut); Swank, Paul R. (authoraut); Phillips, Beth M. (authoraut); Eisenberg, Nancy (authoraut); de Villiers, Jill (authoraut); de Villiers, Peter (authoraut); Taylor, Heather B. (authoraut); Lonigan, Christopher J. (authoraut); Assel, Michael (authoraut)
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Abstract:
This article looks closely at two types of errors children have been shown to make with universal quantification-Exhaustive Pairing (EP) errors and Underexhaustive errors-and asks whether they reflect the same underlying phenomenon. In a large-scale, longitudinal study, 140 children were tested 4 times from ages 4 to 7 on sentences involving the universal quantifier every. We find an interesting inverse relationship between EP errors and Underexhaustive errors over development: the point at which children stop making Underexhaustive errors is also when they begin making EP errors. Underexhaustive errors, common at early stages in our study, may be indicative of a non-adult, non-exhaustive semantics for every. EP errors, which emerge later, and remain frequent even at age 7, are progressive in nature and were also found with adults in a control study. Following recent developmental work (Drozd and van Loosbroek 2006; Smits 2010), we suggest that these errors do not signal lack of knowledge, but may stem from independent difficulties appropriately restricting the quantifier domain in the presence of a salient, but irrelevant, extra object. ; longitudinal, risk, every, exhaustive pairing, language acquisition, quantifier spreading, universal quantification ; The publisher's version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.166
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http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_libsubv1_wos_000409280600002
https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.166
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