TY - JOUR AU - Kamiya, Masaaki AU - Matsuya, Akemi PY - 2019/05/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Lexical vs. Pragmatically Derived Interpretations of Numerals JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 15 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/386 SP - 353-364 AB - <p>This paper shows that the pragmatically derived interpretations of the numerals such as ‘at least N’ or ‘at most N’ and the lexical counterparts are mutually exclusive with respect to language acquisition. Hence, children do not infer the meanings of the pragmatically derived meanings of the numerals based on the lexical counterparts and vice versa.</p> ER -