| Autor: |
Bott, Oliver, Schlotterbeck, Fabian, É. Kiss, Katalin, Zétényi, Tamás |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
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| Zdroj: |
Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification ISBN: 9783319915654 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-91566-1_9 |
| Popis: |
The present study shows that adults make errors of quantifier spreading similar to those commonly observed in preschool children when interpreting universally quantified sentences. In a resource demanding version of the truth value judgment task, adult participants often rejected scope disambiguated, universally quantified sentences (e.g. Every kid is such that it was praised by exactly one teacher) in situations where each kid was praised by exactly one teacher, but there was (A) an additional teacher praising no kids (= classic quantifier spreading) and/or (B) a teacher who praised more than one kid. While the classic spreading error has been studied extensively, spreading errors of the second type have not been attested in the acquisition literature. Neither type of error occurred in an ordinary picture verification task using the same materials. A third experiment ruled out the possibility that the errors observed in Experiment 1 are due to misrepresenting the situations in memory. Our results are most consistent with resource-based accounts of quantifier spreading (e.g. Geurts in Lang Acquis 11:197–218, 2003) but are unexpected under the discontinuity hypothesis (e.g. Philip in Event quantification in the acquisition of universal quantification. UMI, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1995) and accounts relying on plausible dissent (e.g. Crain et al. in Lang Acquis 5:83–153, 1996). We outline a novel explanation of quantifier spreading in terms of the computation and evaluation of default models that can account for the presented results as well as earlier findings reviewed in the introduction of the chapter. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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