TITLE: Getting to no: Pragmatic and semantic factors in two- and three-year-olds‟ understanding of negation
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Getting to No: Pragmatic and Semantic Factors in Two- and Three-Year-Olds' Understanding of Negation.
Although infants say "no" early, older children have difficulty understanding its truth-functional meaning. Two experiments investigate whether this difficulty stems from the infelicity of negative sentences out of the blue. In Experiment 1, given supportive discourse, 3-year-olds (N = 16) understood both affirmative and negative sentences. However, with sentence types randomized, 2-year-olds (...
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