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QR in Child Grammar: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion
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Syrett, Kristen; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
We show that 4-year-olds assign the correct interpretation to antecedent-contained deletion (ACD) sentences because they have the correct representation of these structures. This representation involves Quantifier Raising (QR) of a Quantificational Noun Phrase (QNP) that must move out of the site of the verb phrase in which it is contained to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar
On the Quantificational Status of Indefinites: The View from Child Language
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Lidz, Jeffrey; Musolino, Julien – Language Acquisition, 2006
Theories of indefinites vary with respect to whether these noun phrases can be treated as quantificational. Although everyone seems to be in agreement that indefinites do not always introduce their own quantificational force, there is widespread disagreement as to whether they ever do. In this article, we present experimental evidence from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Dravidian Languages, English