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1. Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers

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Katsos, Napoleon, Cummins, Chris, Ezeizabarrena, Maria-José, Gavarró, Anna, Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač, Hrzica, Gordana, Grohmann, Kleanthes K., Skordi, Athina, de López, Kristine Jensen, Sundahl, Lone, van Hout, Angeliek, Hollebrandse, Bart, Overweg, Jessica, Faber, Myrthe, van Koert, Margreet, Smith, Nafsika, Vija, Maigi, Zupping, Sirli, Kunnari, Sari, Morisseau, Tiffany, Rusieshvili, Manana, Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Fengler, Anja, Varlokosta, Spyridoula, Konstantzou, Katerina, Farby, Shira, Guasti, Maria Teresa, Vernice, Mirta, Okabe, Reiko, Isobe, Miwa, Crosthwaite, Peter, Hong, Yoonjee, Balčiūnienė, Ingrida, Nizar, Yanti Marina Ahmad, Grech, Helen, Gatt, Daniela, Cheong, Win Nee, Asbjørnsen, Arve, von Koss Torkildsen, Janne, Haman, Ewa, Miękisz, Aneta, Gagarina, Natalia, Puzanova, Julia, Anđelković, Darinka, Savić, Maja, Jošić, Smiljana, Slančová, Daniela, Kapalková, Svetlana, Barberán, Tania, Özge, Duygu, Hassan, Saima, Chan, Cecilia Yuet Hung, Okubo, Tomoya, van der Lely, Heather, Sauerland, Uli, and Noveck, Ira

Published
2016

2. Children’s Comprehension of the Verbal Aspect in Serbian.

Author

Savić, Maja, Popović, Maša, and Anđelković, Darinka

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*SERBIAN language, *PRESCHOOL children, *LANGUAGE acquisition, *SEMANTICS, *DATA analysis
Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate how Serbian native speaking preschool children comprehend perfective and imperfective aspect in comparison to adults. After watching animated movies with complete, incomplete and unstarted actions, the participants were asked questions with a perfective or imperfective verb form and responded by pointing to the event(s) that corresponded to each question. The results converged to a clear developmental trend in understanding of aspectual forms. The data indicate that the acquisition of perfective precedes the acquisition of imperfective: 3-year-olds typically understand only the meaning of perfective; most 5-year-olds have almost adult-like understanding of both aspectual forms, while 4-year-olds are a transitional group. Our results support the viewpoint that children’s and adults’ representations of this language category differ qualitatively, and we argue that mastering of aspect semantics is a longterm process that presupposes a certain level of cognitive and pragmatic development, and lasts throughout the preschool period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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3. Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers

Author

Katsos, Napoleon, Cummins, Chris, Ezeizabarrena, Maria-José, Gavarró, Anna, Kuvač Kraljević, Jelena, Hrzica, Gordana, Grohmann, Kleanthes K, Skordi, Athina, Jensen De López, Kristine, Sundahl, Lone, Van Hout, Angeliek, Hollebrandse, Bart, Overweg, Jessica, Faber, Myrthe, Van Koert, Margreet, Smith, Nafsika, Vija, Maigi, Zupping, Sirli, Kunnari, Sari, Morisseau, Tiffany, Rusieshvili, Manana, Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Fengler, Anja, Varlokosta, Spyridoula, Konstantzou, Katerina, Farby, Shira, Guasti, Maria Teresa, Vernice, Mirta, Okabe, Reiko, Isobe, Miwa, Crosthwaite, Peter, Hong, Yoonjee, Balčiūnienė, Ingrida, Ahmad Nizar, Yanti Marina, Grech, Helen, Gatt, Daniela, Cheong, Win Nee, Asbjørnsen, Arve, Torkildsen, Janne Von Koss, Haman, Ewa, Miękisz, Aneta, Gagarina, Natalia, Puzanova, Julia, Anđelković, Darinka, Savić, Maja, Jošić, Smiljana, Slančová, Daniela, Kapalková, Svetlana, Barberán, Tania, Özge, Duygu, Hassan, Saima, Chan, Cecilia Yuet Hung, Okubo, Tomoya, Van Der Lely, Heather, Sauerland, Uli, and Noveck, Ira

Subjects
Adult, Male, quantifiers, 4. Education, Linguistics, Generalization, Psychological, Semantics, language acquisition, universals, Child, Preschool, FOS: Languages and literature, Humans, Learning, Female, Comprehension, pragmatics, Language
Abstract

Learners of most languages are faced with the task of acquiring words to talk about number and quantity. Much is known about the order of acquisition of number words as well as the cognitive and perceptual systems and cultural practices that shape it. Substantially less is known about the acquisition of quantifiers. Here, we consider the extent to which systems and practices that support number word acquisition can be applied to quantifier acquisition and conclude that the two domains are largely distinct in this respect. Consequently, we hypothesize that the acquisition of quantifiers is constrained by a set of factors related to each quantifier's specific meaning. We investigate competence with the expressions for "all," "none," "some," "some…not," and "most" in 31 languages, representing 11 language types, by testing 768 5-y-old children and 536 adults. We found a cross-linguistically similar order of acquisition of quantifiers, explicable in terms of four factors relating to their meaning and use. In addition, exploratory analyses reveal that language- and learner-specific factors, such as negative concord and gender, are significant predictors of variation.

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