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Johnson, Adrienne; Minai, Utako – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
The current study examined preschool children's ability to evaluate the entailment patterns yielded by sentences containing two downward entailing (DE) operators, "every" and "no." When "no" precedes "every," the entailment pattern typically licensed by "every" changes, but only if "no"…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Sentence Structure
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Hacohen, Aviya – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
In this study, the author investigates the telic/atelic distinction in adult and child Hebrew. Telicity is defined here in terms of culmination requirements, whereby telic predicates, but not atelic ones, have an inherent culmination point that must be reached in order for the predicate to be true. Motivated by a modular model of language, in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Pragmatics, Role
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Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Rodina, Yulia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
This article investigates the acquisition of object shift in Norwegian child language. We show that object shift is complex derivationally, distributionally, and referentially, and propose a new analysis in terms of IP-internal topicalization. The results of an elicited production study with 27 monolingual Norwegian-speaking children (ages…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Monolingualism, Norwegian