| Presentation | 2007/7/7 An Experimental Study on Children's Interpretation of Negation and Because-clauses(MAPLL Workshop) Chizuru NAKAO, Takuya GORO, Jeffrey LIDZ, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper reports an experimental study on children's relative scope interpretation of negation and because-clauses. Conducting an experiment with a truth-value judgment task, we found that both children and adults exhibit a bias to interpret because-clauses outside of negation. This pattern contrasts with children's non-adult-like biases in negative sentences involving covert scope-shifting operations (e.g., QR, reconstruction), which have been extensively reported in the literature. Children's adult-like behavior in sentences with negation and because-clauses indicates that these non-adult-like biases cannot solely be attributed to difficulties with negation. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Negation / Because-clauses / Scope / Attachment ambiguity / Language acquisition |
| Paper # | TL2007-29 |
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| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2007/7/7(1days) |
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| Registration To | Thought and Language (TL) |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | An Experimental Study on Children's Interpretation of Negation and Because-clauses(MAPLL Workshop) |
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| Keyword(1) | Negation |
| Keyword(2) | Because-clauses |
| Keyword(3) | Scope |
| Keyword(4) | Attachment ambiguity |
| Keyword(5) | Language acquisition |
| 1st Author's Name | Chizuru NAKAO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takuya GORO |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland |
| 3rd Author's Name | Jeffrey LIDZ |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland |
| Date | 2007/7/7 |
| Paper # | TL2007-29 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.107 |
| Number (no) | 138 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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