The Question–Answer Requirement for scope assignment
TL;DR: This paper propose a new factor at play in Truth Value Judgment tasks: the Question-Answer Requirement (QAR), which states that children (and adults) must interpret the target sentence that they evaluate as an answer to a question that is made salient by the discourse.
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Abstract: This paper focuses on children’s interpretation of sentences containing negation and a quantifier (e.g., The detective didn’t find some guys). Recent studies suggest that, although children are capable of accessing inverse scope interpretations of such sentences, they resort to surface scope to a larger extent than adults. To account for children’s behavioral pattern, we propose a new factor at play in Truth Value Judgment tasks: the Question–Answer Requirement (QAR). According to the QAR, children (and adults) must interpret the target sentence that they evaluate as an answer to a question that is made salient by the discourse.
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