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Group-denoting vs. counting: Against the scalar explanation of children's interpretation of `some' ...
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The computation of scalar implicatures based on the scale 〈some, all〉 represents a problem for children. This paper argues that the source of children’s difficulties with interpreting ‘some’ is that it is ambiguous; it has a non-partitive interpretation, corresponding to ‘a few’, which forms a scale with non-partitive ‘many’, and a partitive reading, corresponding to ‘a subset of’, which forms a scale with ‘all’. The two readings have different distributions; they are selected by different predicates, and in Hungarian, they occur in different structural positions. We tested and confirmed the hypothesis that young children are not sensitive to the partitivity feature of ‘some’-phrases; they first acquire the non-partitive reading, which they overgeneralize for a while. Experiment 1, a forced choice task, showed that the default reading of ‘some’ NPs for six-year olds is the ‘a few’ interpretation. Exper- iment 2, a truth value judgement task, demonstrated that children also accept the ‘not all’ interpretation ...
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Keyword:
`some'; counting quantifier; Hungarian; language acquisition; partitive; scalar implicature
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082483 https://zenodo.org/record/5082483
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