Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions
Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive The trucks are blue and the negative The trucks aren't blue are both neither true nor false when some of the trucks are blue and some are not, that is, when the group of trucks is not homogeneous with respect to the pro...
Main Authors: | Lyn Tieu, Manuel Križ, Emmanuel Chemla |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02329/full |
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