Linguistic and cognitive aspects of quantification. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katalin É. Kiss, Tamás Zétényi, editors.
• Editors: Kiss, Katalin É; Zétényi, Tamás
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; References; Structural Asymmetry in Question/Quantifier Interactions; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Background; 2.1 Structural Limits on the Wide Scope Reading of Quantifiers; 2.2 Quantifier Distributivity and Scope; 2.3 Summary; 3 Experimental Data; 3.1 Method; 3.2 Results and Discussion; 4 Nature of the Subject-Object Asymmetry in Scopal Interactions; 5 Conclusion; References; Children Know the Prosody-Semantic/Pragmatic Link: Experimental Evidence from Rise-Fall-Rise and Scope; 1 Introduction; 2 Rise-Fall-Rise (RFR) Prosody; 3 Previous Studies 3.1 Children Can Access the Inverse Scope Reading3.2 Adults Do Not Employ But Do Hear Different Contours; 3.3 Testing Whether Children Know Prosody Interacts with Scope; 4 The Current Study; 4.1 Method; 4.2 Results-Adults; 4.3 Results-Children; 5 Discussion; 5.1 Discussion-Adults; 5.2 Discussion-Children; 6 Concluding Remarks; References; Differentiating Universal Quantification from Perfectivity: Cantonese-Speaking Children's Command of the Affixal Quantifier saai3; 1 Introduction 2 Semantic and Distributional Differences between the Affixal Universal Quantifier saai3 and the Perfective Aspect Marker zo22.1 The Perfective Aspect Marker zo2; 2.2 The Universal Quantifier Suffix saai3; 2.3 Other Cases in Which zo2 and saai3 Cannot Be Used Interchangeably; 3 Cantonese-Speaking Children's Early Knowledge of saai3 and zo2; 3.1 Children's Early Use of saai3 and zo2 in Spontaneous Speech; 3.2 Children's Understanding of saai3 in Exhaustive Contexts; 3.3 Children's Knowledge of the Relative Scope of saai3 and Negation; 4 The Present Study; 4.1 Participants 4.2 Test Materials and Experiment Design4.3 Procedure; 4.4 Predictions; 4.5 Results; 4.6 Overall Discussion; 5 Conclusions; References; Scalar Implicature or Domain Restriction: How Children Determine the Domain of Numerical Quantifiers; 1 Introduction; 2 Linguistic Background; 3 Psycholinguistic Antecedents; 4 Experiment 1; 4.1 Participants; 4.2 Procedure; 4.3 Materials; 4.4 Results; 4.5 Discussion; 5 Experiment 2; 5.1 Participants; 5.2 Material and Procedure; 5.3 Results; 5.4 Discussion; 6 Experiment 3; 6.1 Participants; 6.2 Materials and Procedure; 6.3 Results; 6.4 Discussion 7 Experiment 47.1 Participants; 7.2 Materials, Procedure; 7.3 Results; 7.4 Discussion; 8 General Discussion; References; Universal Quantification and Distributive Marking in Serbian; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Background; 2.1 Distributive-Key Versus Distributive-Share Markers; 2.2 Event Versus Participant Distribution; 2.3 Strong Versus Weak Distributivity; 2.4 Atomicity; 3 Experimental Investigations; 3.1 Previous Experimental Results; 3.2 Enforcing Atomicity and Exhaustivity in po-Sentences by Adding svaki; 3.3 Results; 3.4 Discussion
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 415; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers; Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Cognitive Psychology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319915661; 3319915665
• Related ISBNs: 9783319915654; 3319915657
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 6, 2018).
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