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Kelly, Ronald R.; Berent, Gerald P. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2011
This research contrasted deaf and hearing students' interpretive knowledge of English sentences containing numeral quantifier phrases and indefinite noun phrases. A multiple-interpretation picture task methodology was used to assess 305 participants' judgments of the compatibility of sentence meanings with depicted discourse contexts.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Deafness, English
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Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Schueler-Choukairi, Tanya – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
English sentences containing the universal quantifiers "each", "every", and "all" are highly complex structures in view of the subtleties of their scope properties and resulting ambiguities. This study explored the acquisition of universal quantifier sentences as reflected in the performance of three diverse college-level student groups on a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Deafness