Conservativity and Learnability of Determiners
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چکیده
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 determiner but succeed 10 in learning a comparable conservative determiner, consistent with the learnability 11 hypothesis. 12
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Semantics
دوره 30 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013