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Direct linkMinai, Utako; Isobe, Miwa; Okabe, Reiko – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
The current study investigates preschool-age children's comprehension of scrambled sentences in Japanese. While scrambling has been known to be challenging for children, biasing them to exhibit non-adult-like interpretations (e.g., Hayashibe in "Descr Appl Linguist" 8:1-18, 1975; Sano in "Descr Appl Linguist" 10:213-233, 1977;…
Descriptors: Japanese, Child Language, Sentences, Psycholinguistics
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
Minai, Utako; Jincho, Nobuyuki; Yamane, Naoto; Mazuka, Reiko – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Recent studies on the acquisition of semantics have argued that knowledge of the universal quantifier is adult-like throughout development. However, there are domains where children still exhibit non-adult-like universal quantification, and arguments for the early mastery of relevant semantic knowledge do not explain what causes such…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Form Classes (Languages)
