Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu
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摘要
众所周知,当需要的选择通过对比变得突出时,或者当它通过故事或讨论中的问题与上下文相关时,儿童会得出更多的含义。我们调查了儿童罗马尼亚语中三个析取词(sau " or “, sau…sau和fie…fie ” either…or ")的排他性含义,这是一种先前文献中研究不足的语言。三个实验表明,仅仅存在更强的选择,即在实验过程中简单地听到不相关的连词陈述,并不足以提高含义。相反,含义的增加是由于对替代方案和上下文相关性的访问(通过连词问题,如母鸡推火车和船了吗?)有趣的是,仅在基于“saud”的断续词中观察到含义的增加,而在“fie…fie”中则没有,我们推测这可能是由于儿童将后者视为断续和连接之间的模糊。
Does hearing “and” help children understand “or”? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian
Children are known to derive more implicatures when the required alternative is made salient through contrast or when it is made contextually relevant through a story or a Question Under Discussion. We investigated the exclusivity implicature of three disjunctions (sau “or”, sau… sau, and fie…fie “either…or”) in child Romanian, an understudied language in the previous literature. Three experiments reveal that the mere presence of the stronger alternative, that is, simply hearing unrelated conjunctive statements in the course of the experiment, is not enough to boost implicatures. Rather, implicatures increase as a result of both access to alternatives and contextual relevance (expressed through conjunctive questions such as Did the hen push the train and the boat?). Interestingly, the boost in implicatures was observed only for sau-based disjunctions, not for fie…fie, which we conjecture may be due to children treating the latter as ambiguous between disjunction and conjunction.
期刊介绍:
A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. The international range of authors and breadth of coverage allow the journal to forge links between many different areas of research including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach spans a wide range of interests: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, or any other recognised facet of language study.