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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Published in:	Biolinguistics
Main Authors:	Anna Notley, Rosalind Thornton, Stephen Crain
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2012-03-01
Subjects:	acquisition of semantics disjunction in natural language scope ambiguity
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8883

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