Quantification without Qualification.

Crain, Stephen; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ534241

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1996

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Quantification without Qualification.

Crain, Stephen; And Others

Language Acquisition, v5 n2 p83-153 1996

Argues against the linguistic account of children's responses to sentences with universal quantification and reports on investigations of their comprehension and production of quantificational sentences. The article concludes that young children have full grammatical competence with universal quantification. (58 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Sentence Structure

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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