%0 Journal Article
%T A pilot study of quantification in child Catalan
%A Gavarr¨®
%A Anna
%A Escobar ¨¢lvarez
%A M. ¨¢ngeles
%J Zeitschrift f¨¹r Katalanistik
%D 2011
%I Alber-Ludwigs-Universit?t
%X Since the work of Inhelder and Piaget, children have been known to interpret universal quantifiers differently from adults; in this paper we present the first experimental results on the interpretation of the universal quantifier 'tots' "all" by speakers of Catalan aged 3 to 7. We observe an early stage (ages 3 to 4) in which children incur in underexhaustive and overexhaustive errors; while the first disappear at a later stage (at age 5), overexhaustive errors persist all through the period examined. Further, cross-linguistic evidence can be adduced to show that the asymmetry between subject and object underlying this kind of errors extends beyond the empirical domain of quantifiers.
%K Acquisition
%K universal quantifiers
%K Catalan language
%K overexhaustive search
%K underexhaustive search
%U http://www.romanistik.uni-freiburg.de/pusch/zfk/24/15_Gavarro_Escobar.pdf