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Conservativity and Learnability of Determiners
5 A striking cross-linguistic generalisation about the semantics of determiners is 6 that they never express nonconservative relations. To account for this one might hy7 pothesise that the mechanisms underlying human language acquisition are unsuited 8 to nonconservative determiner meanings. We present experimental evidence that 9 fourand five-year-olds fail to learn a novel nonconservative det...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Semantics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0167-5133,1477-4593
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffx018