Acquisition of Quantifiers
Acquisition of Quantifiers
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10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011516-033930
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2017-01-01
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Crain, Stephen
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Crain, Stephen
用量词解释儿童对句子的非成人解释是50多年来广泛研究的目标。这篇文章回顾了四个领域的研究，每个领域都是从观察到儿童和成人对量词的不同反应开始的。观察到的差异受到了相当大的争论，经常从语言学理论中寻求答案，有时导致理论的变化。本文首先讨论了儿童对带有数量先行词和指称先行词的代词的句子的理解。下一个主题是儿童对带有量词和否定的句子的非成人反应。第三个主题是儿童对范围现象的分析。最后，我讨论了儿童对焦点副词的理解，这是为了揭示历史上不同语言的一些共同特征。在这四个方面的进步揭示了儿童对量词的基本含义以及量词如何与其他逻辑表达式相互作用的深刻理解。我的结论是，儿童对量词的非成人解释与普遍语法理论是一致的。
Explaining children's nonadult interpretations of sentences with quantifiers has been the objective of extensive research for more than 50 years. This article reviews four areas of research, each of which began with the observation that children and adults respond differently to sentences with quantifiers. The observed differences have been subject to considerable debate, often drawing upon linguistic theory for answers and sometimes resulting in changes to the theory. This article begins by discussing children's comprehension of sentences with pronouns with quantificational versus referential antecedents. The next topic is children's nonadult responses to sentences with quantifiers and negation. The third topic is children's analysis of scope phenomena. I conclude with a discussion of children's understanding of the focus adverb only, which is used to expose some common properties of historically distinct languages. Progress in each of these four areas has revealed children's deep understanding of the basic meanings of quantifiers and how quantifiers interact with other logical expressions. I conclude that children's nonadult interpretations of quantifiers are consistent with the theory of Universal Grammar.