Bart Hollebrandse

TL;DR: The extent to which systems and practices that support number word acquisition can be applied to quantifier acquisition is considered and it is concluded that the two domains are largely distinct in this respect.

TL;DR: 7-year-olds pass a verbal false-belief reasoning task, but fail on an equally complex low-verbal task, which suggests that language supports explicit reasoning about beliefs, perhaps by facilitating the cognitive system to keep track of beliefs attributed by people to other people.

TL;DR: The human cognitive system has the remarkable ability to organize streams of information in such a way that adding more often results in less as mentioned in this paper, and the Necker cube phenomenon is such an example.

TL;DR: This paper found that children between 4-6 years old rely less on grammatical knowledge to resolve an object pronoun than adults, but also use other information such as discourse prominence and visual context.

TL;DR: This chapter proposes that truth contrasts between clauses may provide a crucial trigger for recursive complements, and shows that new insight can be gained by examining higher order levels of both sentence embedding and propositional attitudes.