DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Žaneta ŠULÍKOVÁ. The Distributive and Cumulative Readings Acquisition: Experimental Evidence from Czech. Online. In Markéta Janebová, Michaela Čakányová, and Joseph Emonds. Language Use and Linguistic Structure Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2023. Olomouc: Palacký University, 2024, p. 193-210. Olomouc modern language series ; vol. 10. ISBN 978-80-244-6508-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ff.24.24465081.
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Original name The Distributive and Cumulative Readings Acquisition: Experimental Evidence from Czech
Authors DOČEKAL, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Žaneta ŠULÍKOVÁ (703 Slovakia).
Edition Olomouc, Language Use and Linguistic Structure Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2023, p. 193-210, 18 pp. Olomouc modern language series ; vol. 10, 2024.
Publisher Palacký University
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-80-244-6508-1
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ff.24.24465081
Keywords in English formal semantics; acquisition
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
The child’s mother tongue acquisition is a gradual process of linguistic and communi- cative competencies. It is related to the child’s overall development, thinking, and cognition. This paper discusses the issue of the acquisition of distributivity, quantifiers, and nominal phrases in the Czech language. The study aims to discover at what age the obligatory distributive interpretation of the universal quantifier (UQ) každý ‘each’ appears in the language of Czech children. We focused on Czech UQs and bare NPs concerning their distributive and cumulative interpretation (since definiteness in Czech as a grammatical category is questionable at least, see Šimík and Demian 2020), which left us with two issues that we would like to address in the current paper: (i) What is the learning development of UQs/bare NPs? (ii) Is there a correlation between the acquisition of the correct obligatory distributive meaning for Czech UQs and the tendency to reject the distributive interpretation of bare NPs?
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