English-Speaking Children’s Interpretation of Disjunction in the Scope of ‘not every’

This study examined 4- to 5-year-old English-speaking children’s inter-pretations of sentences containing negation, the universal quantifier, and disjunction. Disjunction is assigned two different meanings in such sentences depending on its position in surface syntax: in the subject phrase of ‘not e...

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Main Authors: Anna Notley, Rosalind Thornton, Stephen Crain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Biolinguistics 2012-03-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:http://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/226