@article{Gualmini_Meroni_Crain_2019, title={An Asymmetric Universal in Child Language}, volume={7}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/797}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2003.v7i0.797}, abstractNote={<p>Investigations of sentences with the universal quantifier <em>every</em> have led to qualitatively different conclusions about children’s linguistic knowledge. The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which children know the semantics of the universal quantifier <em>every</em>. A Truth Value Judgment task was conducted to determine whether young children know that the two arguments of the universal quantifier <em>every</em> differ in that only the restrictor, and not the nuclear scope, is downward entailing. Taken together with previous research, the experimental findings suggest that children’s knowledge of the universal quantifier <em>every</em> runs deep, and includes the asymmetry in interpretation between the restrictor and the nuclear scope. The findings challenge recent claims that children lack knowledge of quantification.</p>}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Gualmini, Andrea and Meroni, Luisa and Crain, Stephen}, year={2019}, month={Aug.}, pages={136–148} }