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Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction should everyone adopt? A new take on a classic developmental puzzle
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Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction should everyone adopt? A new take on a classic developmental puzzle

Asya Achimova, Christa Crosby, Kristen Syrett, Viviane Déprez and Julien Musolino
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.37(1), pp.1-12
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (37th) (Boston, MA, 11/2012)
11/2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7282/T3CR5WCP

Abstract

English language--Quantifiers Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers
Quantifiers are expressions that denote number and quantity. When quantifiers interact with each other or with other logical expressions in a sentence, the resulting interpretation may be ambiguous. In this paper, we focus on young chilren’s understanding of the interaction of the universal quantifiers every and each with wh-expressions (who, which) in questions
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