The present study investigates our proposal about the source of the different findings in previous studies. More specifically, it was designed to determine whether children license conjunctive inferences only if the experimental context does not contain o...[继续阅读]

    The present chapter investigated another possible difference between internal and external negation, involving the licensing of Free Choice Inferences (Kamp 1973, 1978).A Free Choice Inference is licensed in sentence (24), where disjunction appears in the...[继续阅读]

    Several previous studies have reported that children compute conjunctive inferences when disjunction is embedded under a modal verb (see e.g., Zhou et al. 2013; Tieu et al. 2016). We will review a representative study by Zhou et al. (2013). These research...[继续阅读]

    Experiment 2 examined whether children would license conjunctive inferences for disjunctive sentences without a deontic modal verb.ParticipantsAnother group of 23 Mandarin-speaking children were interviewed, and they ranged in age from 3;8 to 5;11, with a...[继续阅读]

    In Chinese, the disjunction word huozhe ‘or’, the polarity sensitive expression renhe ‘any’ and wh-words like shenme ‘what’ and shei ‘who’ are disparate-looking on the surface, but these expressions exhibit deep-seated regularities. These three expression...[继续阅读]

    Using a Picture Verification Task, Paris (1973) assessed English-speaking children’s interpretation of sentences with disjunction, along with several other logical connectives. In the study, the child was presented with a picture on a screen, followed by ...[继续阅读]

    This is possibly a pioneering study regarding Mandarin-speaking children’s understanding of the three prominent manifestations of wh-words in Chinese, in forming wh-questions, universal declarative statements and universal Free Choice Inferences (FCIs). T...[继续阅读]

    In classical logic, the logical connective for disjunction has the truth conditions associated with inclusive-or. A statement of the form [A or B] is true in three circumstances: When only A is true, when only B is true, and when both A and B are true. In...[继续阅读]