Acquisition of Negation and Quantification: Insights from Adult Production and Comprehension

Autor/inn/en	Gennari, Silvia P.; MacDonald, Maryellen C.
Titel	Acquisition of Negation and Quantification: Insights from Adult Production and Comprehension
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition, 13 (2006) 2, S.125-168 (44 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1207/s15327817la1302_5
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Adults; Models; Reading Comprehension; Children; Sentences; Figurative Language; Language Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Analogiemodell; Leseverstehen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur
Abstract	Inspired by adult models of language production and comprehension, we investigate whether children's nonadult interpretation of ambiguous negative quantified sentences reflects their sensitivity to distributional patterns of language use. Studies 1 and 2 show that ambiguous negative quantified sentences of the sort typically used in acquisition studies are strongly avoided in adult production and are judged as poor alternatives by adults. Corpus Studies 3 and 4 show that children and adults overwhelmingly use quantifiers and negation in ways that promote one interpretation of these ambiguous quantified sentences over others. We argue that these patterns guide children's ambiguity resolution processes and explain children's interpretations of ambiguous quantified sentences. The origin of distributional patterns in adult production processes is discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10