Ups and Downs of Child Language
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A01=Andrea Gualmini
Author_Andrea Gualmini
Category=CF
Category=DS
Category=JMC
children's
Children's Adherence
Children's Interpretation
Children’s Adherence
Children’s Interpretation
Conjunctive Interpretation
De Morgan's Law
De Morgan’s Law
Disjunction Operator
downward
Downward Entailing
entailing
Entailment Relations
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Experiment VI
Felicity Conditions
item
Language Interpretation
Linear Precedence
Natural Language Determiners
negative
Negative Polarity Item
Negative Sentences
Noun Substitution
Nuclear Scope
polarity
Polarity Item
Positive Polarity Item
Quantification Account
Quantified Expression
quantifier
sentence
Structure Dependent Rule
Structure Independent Rule
Tager Flusberg
target
Target Sentence
universal
Universal Quantifier
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- ISBN 9780415971256
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Andrea Gualmini investigates the role of entailment relations for child language in a series of interconnected experiments assessing children's negation and their interpretation of words like or, every, and some. Comparing his study to other models of language acquisition and characterizing the observed differences between children and adults, Gualmini asserts that even in the domain of semantic competence there is no reason to assume that child language differs from adult language in ways that would exceed the boundary conditions imposed by Universal Grammar.
Andrea Gualmini is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Linguistics at M.I.T. He received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland.
