Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Katalin É. Kiss

   Pages 1-11

3. Structural Asymmetry in Question/Quantifier Interactions

   • Asya Achimova, Viviane Déprez, Julien Musolino

   Pages 13-29

4. Children Know the Prosody-Semantic/Pragmatic Link: Experimental Evidence from Rise-Fall-Rise and Scope

   • Ayaka Sugawara, Martin Hackl, Irina Onoprienko, Ken Wexler

   Pages 31-55

5. Differentiating Universal Quantification from Perfectivity: Cantonese-Speaking Children’s Command of the Affixal Quantifier saai3

   • Margaret Ka-yan Lei, Thomas Hun-tak Lee

   Pages 57-82

6. Scalar Implicature or Domain Restriction: How Children Determine the Domain of Numerical Quantifiers

   • Katalin É. Kiss, Tamás Zétényi

   Pages 83-114

7. Universal Quantification and Distributive Marking in Serbian

   • Nataša Knežević, Hamida Demirdache

   Pages 115-140

8. The Distributive–Collective Ambiguity and Information Structure

   • Balázs Surányi, Levente Madarász

   Pages 141-169

9. Quantifier Spreading in School-Age Children: An Eye-Tracking Study

   • Irina A. Sekerina, Patricia J. Brooks, Luca Campanelli, Anna M. Schwartz

   Pages 171-192

10. Turning Adults into Children: Evidence for Resource-Based Accounts of Errors with Universal Quantification

    • Oliver Bott, Fabian Schlotterbeck

    Pages 193-216

11. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219

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This volume presents the results of psycholinguistic research into various aspects of the grammar of quantification. The investigations involve children and adults, speakers of different languages, using a variety of experimental paradigms. A shared aspect of the studies is that they present their experimental results as evidence evaluating linguistic theories of quantification. Topics discussed include the interpretation of universal, comparative, and superlative quantifiers, quantifier spreading, scope interaction between pairs of quantifiers and between quantifiers and wh-phrases, distributivity and cumulativity, the interaction of quantifier interpretation with information structure, the disambiguating role of prosody, the functional overlap between universal quantification and perfectivity, and much more. The focus on experimental evidence makes this book essential reading for linguists (syntacticians, semanticists and pragmatists), psycholinguists and psychologists interested in quantification.

• Scope interpretation
• Universal quantification
• Psycholinguistic and sign-language data
• Ostensive effect in scalar implicatures
• Scope ambiguity in Broca’s aphasia
• The distributive share quantifier po in Serbian
• Cantonese-speaking children
• Acquisition of exceptives in quantified sentences

• Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

  Katalin É. Kiss

• Department of Ergonomics and Psychology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  Tamás Zétényi

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