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Direct linkGuasti, Maria Teresa; Chierchia, Gennaro; Crain, Stephen; Foppolo, Francesca; Gualmini, Andrea; Meroni, Luisa – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2005
Noveck (2001) argued that children even as old as 11 do not reliably endorse a scalar interpretation of weak scalar terms ("some", "might", "or") (cf. Braine & Rumain, 1981; Smith, 1980). More recent studies suggest, however, that children's apparent failures may depend on the experimental demands (Papafragou…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Prerequisites, Young Children, Adults
