Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction should everyone adopt? A new take on a classic developmental puzzle

Asya Achimova (1) , Christa Crosby (1) , Kristen Syrett (1) , Viviane Deprez (2) , Julien Musolino (1)

1 RuCCS - Department of Linguistics and the Center for Cognitive ScienceRutgers University.
2 L2C2 - Laboratoire sur le langage, le cerveau et la cognition

Quantifiers are expressions that denote number and quantity (Peters & Westerståhl 2006). When quantifiers interact with each other or with other logical expressions in a sentence, the resulting interpretation may be ambiguous (cf .May 1985, a.o.). In this paper, we focus on young chilren's understanding of the interaction of the universal quantifiers every and each with wh expressions (who, which )in questions such as().

Domaines: Linguistique

Asya Achimova, Christa Crosby, Kristen Syrett, Viviane Deprez, Julien Musolino. Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction should everyone adopt? A new take on a classic developmental puzzle. 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov 2012, Boston, United States. pp.1-12. ⟨hal-00932545⟩