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Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development
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In this article, the authors present a challenge to young language learners, given their vague meaning and ability to take on an upper-bounded interpretation (relative to all) in certain con...Abstract:
Quantificational elements such as some pose a challenge to young language learners, given their vague meaning and ability to take on an upper-bounded interpretation (relative to all) in certain con...read more
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Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults.
Kristen Syrett,Athulya Aravind +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that children's behavior is in fact licensed by the inherent context dependence of count nouns, and showed that under certain conditions, adult performance resembles that of children by allowing in partial objects.
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