Some knowledge children don't lack
Some knowledge children don't lack
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DOI：
10.1515/ling.2004.034
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
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1.1
通讯作者：
Gualmini, A
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作者：
Gualmini, A
关于儿童对不确定np和否定的理解的实验研究报告了对“侦探没有找到一些家伙”等句子的系统的非成人解释（见Musolino 1998）。在这篇文章中，我们质疑这些发现是否需要语法解释。我们观察到，负面陈述通常用于指出事实与听者期望之间的差异，而这一幸福条件在以前的研究中并未得到满足。真值判断任务的结果表明，当否定句的幸福条件得到满足时，儿童对否定句中不确定词的解释与成人相似。
Experimental studies on children's understanding of indefinite NPs and negation report a systematic non-adult interpretation of sentences like "The detective didn't find some guys" (see Musolino 1998). In this article, we question whether these findings require a grammatical explanation. We draw upon the observation that negative statements are generally used to point out discrepancies between the facts and the listener's expectations, and that this felicity condition was not satisfied in previous studies. The findings of a truth value judgment task show that children's interpretation of indefinites in negative sentences is adultlike, when the felicity conditions associated with negative statements are satisfied.