Genericity Signals the Difference between each and every in Child-Directed Speech
Genericity Signals the Difference between each and every in Child-Directed Speech
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通用性标志着针对儿童的言语之间的差异
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2020
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J. Lidz
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Tyler Knowlton;J. Lidz
The universal quantifiers each and every can both be used to label the same situations in the world. Even so, they differ semantically in subtle ways (§2). In particular, they differ at least with respect to (i) whether they allow pair-list answers in response to questions, (ii) their compatibility with certain “generic” interpretations, and (iii) the extent to which they encourage treating the domain of quantification as independent individuals or as members of a larger group. This raises an acquisition question (§3): what evidence do learners use to infer the meanings of each and every? Here, we report on a corpus analysis of child-ambient speech suggesting that parents use each to talk about a local domain and use every to make broad generalizations that project beyond the local domain. These differences in use come with lower-level concomitants, like quantifying over individuals versus times, or being the argument of a verb as opposed to a topic-setting adjunct (§4). Since these surface-level footprints are available in learners’ input, they might, in principle, be used by learners to infer the relevant difference in meaning. We also sketch a proposal of a learning story (§5) to be investigated in future work. We assume that the usage difference stems from a representational difference: each has a fully first-order meaning that implicates individuals and their properties, whereas every has a second-order meaning that implicates a single group. These distinct mental representations are supported by two different cognitive systems for representing objects: object-files for each and ensemble representations for every. We propose that only the latter is compatible with “generic” thoughts of the sort that every gets used to express. Learners can then make the inference from the lower-level differences in parents’ speech and parents’ intended message-level meaning to the appropriate pairing of quantifiers and concepts (a first-order universal concept grounded in object-files for each; a second-order universal concept grounded in ensemble representations for every).
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1.7
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Ninio,A;Snow,CE;Pan,BA;Rollins,PR
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Rollins,PR
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1998
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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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Gelman,SA;Coley,JD;Rosengren,KS;Hartman,E;Pappas,A
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Pappas,A
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10.1044/jslhr.4006.1314
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1997
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Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
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Nicholas,JG;Geers,AE
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Geers,AE