Collectivity, Distributivity, and the Interpretation of Plural Numerical Expressions in Child and Adult Language [0.03%]
集体性、分配性和儿童及成人语言中复数数量表达的理解
Kristen Syrett,Julien Musolino
Kristen Syrett
Sentences containing plural numerical expressions (e.g., two boys) can give rise to two interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation admits of a part-whole structure. We present the results ...
Kristen Syrett
Kristen Syrett
The purpose of this brief article is to investigate four-year-olds' interpretation of attributive measure phrases (MPs), such as 3-pound, and the role of cardinality in mediating children's responses. In two experiments, I demonstrate that ...
Marc Ettlinger,Jennifer Zapf
Marc Ettlinger
The correct use of an affix, such as the English plural suffix, may reflect mastery of a morphological process but it may also depend on children's syntactic, semantic and phonological abilities. The present paper reports a set of experimen...
Phonological universals in early childhood: Evidence from sonority restrictions [0.03%]
幼儿语音普遍特征：音量限制的证据
Iris Berent,Katherine Harder,Tracy Lennertz
Iris Berent
Across languages, onsets with large sonority distances are preferred to those with smaller distances (e.g., bw>bd>lb; Greenberg, 1978). Optimality theory (Prince & Smolensky, 2004) attributes such facts to grammatical restrictions that are ...