Children's Acquisition of Reciprocal Sentences With Stative and Active Predicates  

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Matsuo, Ayumi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 8 no. 1 (2000), page 1-22.
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In this article, I show that children (mean age = 4;4) not only know the meaning and use of complex reciprocal anaphors like each other, but that they also have knowledge of subtle differences in the possible interpretations of such anaphors depending on the type of predicates involved. Fiengo and Lasnik (1973) noted a contrast between reciprocal sentences with active predicates ((1)), which are ambiguous, and those with stative predicates ((2)), which are not: (1) The men in the room are hitting each other. (2) The men in the room know each other. Example (1), with an active predicate, has both a strong reciprocal reading (i.e., every one of the men in the room is hitting every other one) and a weak reciprocal reading (e.g., A and B are hitting each other and Band C are hitting each other when four people (A-D) are engaged in the action). On the other hand, (2) with a stative predicate allows only the strong reading (i.e., every one of the men in the room knows every other one). I present results that show that children can distinguish (1) from (2).

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