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Group-denoting vs. counting: Against the scalar explanation of children's interpretation of `some' ...
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Group-denoting vs. counting: Against the scalar explanation of children's interpretation of `some' ...
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The computation of scalar implicatures based on the scale 〈some, all〉 represents a problem for children. This paper argues that the source of children’s difficulties with interpreting ‘some’ is that it is ambiguous; it has a non-partitive interpretation, corresponding to ‘a few’, which forms a scale with non-partitive ‘many’, and a partitive reading, corresponding to ‘a subset of’, which forms a scale with ‘all’. The two readings have different distributions; they are selected by different predicates, and in Hungarian, they occur in different structural positions. We tested and confirmed the hypothesis that young children are not sensitive to the partitivity feature of ‘some’-phrases; they first acquire the non-partitive reading, which they overgeneralize for a while. Experiment 1, a forced choice task, showed that the default reading of ‘some’ NPs for six-year olds is the ‘a few’ interpretation. Exper- iment 2, a truth value judgement task, demonstrated that children also accept the ‘not all’ interpretation ...
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`some'; counting quantifier; Hungarian; language acquisition; partitive; scalar implicature
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082484 https://zenodo.org/record/5082484
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Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar inferences
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 32 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature
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In: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning; Vol 1 (2021); 147-158 ; 2694-1791 (2021)
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Modeling Behavior in Truth Value Judgment Task Experiments
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2020)
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To the Roots of Fake Tense and ‘Counterfactuality’
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In: Cahiers Chronos ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02159385 ; Cahiers Chronos, Rodopi, 2019, Cross-linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect, pp.176-212. ⟨10.1163/9789004401006_008⟩ (2019)
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Scalar diversity and negative strengthening [Online resource]
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In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 1 / eds. Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 60 (2018), 191-203
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Presuppositional implicatures: quantity or maximize presupposition? [Online resource]
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In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 2 / eds. Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 61 (2018), 289-306
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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics
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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics ...
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Effects of Working Memory Load and Speaker Reliability on Contrastive Inference and Quantifier Processing
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Eye movement evidence for context-sensitive derivation of scalar inferences
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Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustification: How Scalar Implicatures and Presuppositions Interact
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In: Linguistics and Philosophy (2018) (In press). (2018)
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Eye movement evidence for context-sensitive derivation of scalar inferences
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Scalar Implicature in Chitonga-Speaking Children
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In: Communication Disorders Faculty Publications (2017)
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Scope, scalarity, and polarity in aspectual marking : the case of English 'until' and Spanish 'hasta'
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Pragmatic inferences modulate N400 during sentence comprehension: evidence from picture-sentence verification
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