Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification

This volume presents the results of psycholinguistic research into various aspects of the grammar of quantification. The investigations involve children and adults, speakers of different languages, using a variety of experimental paradigms. A shared aspect of the studies is that they present their e...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: É. Kiss, Katalin (Editor), Zétényi, Tamás (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Katalin É. Kiss
  • Structural asymmetry in question/quantifier interactions; Asya Achimova, Viviane Déprez, and Julien Musolino
  • Children know the prosody-semantic/pragmatic link: Experimental evidence from Rise-Fall-Rise and scope; Ayaka Sugawara, Martin Hackl, Irina Onoprienko, and Ken Wexler
  • Differentiating universal quantification from perfectivity: Cantonese-speaking children’s command of the affixal quantifier saai3; Margaret Ka-yan Lei and Thomas Hun-tak Lee
  • Scalar implicature or domain restriction: How children determine the domain of numerical quantifiers; Katalin É. Kiss and Tamás Zétényi
  • Universal quantification and distributive marking in Serbian; Natasa Knezevic and Hamida Demirdache
  • The distributive–collective ambiguity and Information Structure; Balázs Surányi and Levente Madarász
  • Quantifier Spreading in school-age children: An eye-tracking study; Irina A. Sekerina, Patricia J. Brooks, Luca Campanelli, and Anna M.Schwartz
  • Turning adults into children: Evidence for resource-based accounts of errors with universal quantification; Oliver Bott and Fabian Schlotterbeck
  • Subject index