This article looks closely at two types of errors children have been shown to make with universal quantification—Exhaustive Pairing (EP) errors and Underexhaustive errors—and asks whether they reflect the same underlying phenomenon. In a large-scale, longitudinal study, 140 children were tested 4 times from ages 4 to 7 on sentences involving the universal quantifier every.
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- Aravind, Athulya (Author)
- de Villiers, Jill (Author)
- de Villiers, Peter (Author)
- Lonigan, Christopher J. (Author)
- Phillips, Beth M. (Author)
- Clancy, Jeanine (Author)
- Landry, Susan H. (Author)
- Swank, Paul R. (Author)
- Assel, Michael (Author)
- Taylor, Heather B. (Author)
- Eisenberg, Nancy (Author)
- Spinrad, Tracy (Author)
- Valiente, Carlos (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.5334/gjgl.166
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value2397-1835
- The final version of this article, as published in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, can be viewed online at: https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/abstract/10.5334/gjgl.166/, opens in a new window
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Aravind, A., Villiers, J. D., Villiers, P. D., Lonigan, C. J., Phillips, B. M., Clancy, J., . . . Valiente, C. (2017). Children’s quantification with every over time. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1), 43. doi:10.5334/gjgl.166