Some clues to the nature of semantic development

Donaldson, Margaret; McGarrigle, James

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“…This interpretation was offered because we thought that children might prefer an exhaustive interpretation over a non-exhaustive choice if it were available. The literature on quantifier spreading (e.g., Bucci 1978, Donaldson & Lloyd 1974, Donaldson & McGarrigle 1974, Inhelder & Piaget 1958, 1964, Philip 1991 would appear to suggest that children might avoid selecting non-exhaustive collective and distributive pictures on account of the extra objects depicted. Contrary to our expectations, the majority of children in each language group did not associate sentences with all or each, or their equivalents in Mandarin and Portuguese, with the exhaustive interpretation.…”

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“…A third representation was motivated by the extensive literature on quantifier spreading (e.g., Bucci 1978, Donaldson & Lloyd 1974, Donaldson & McGarrigle 1974, Inhelder & Piaget 1958, 1964, Philip 1991, Philip & Aurelio 1991, Philip & Takahashi 1991, Smith 1979, 1980. Quantifier spreading refers to a particular type of error preschool children routinely make when interpreting sentences containing universal quantification.…”

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A cross-linguistic study of children's comprehension of universal quantifiers: a comparison of Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and English

Brooks

Xing²,

Braine

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The development of children's grasp of lexical cues to universal quantification was investigated in 3to 10-year-olds and in adult native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and English. The experiments focused on children's acquisition of the English quantifiers all and each and their counterparts in Mandarin and Portuguese. Participants selected best-fitting interpretations of sentences containing universal quantification from sets of pictures portraying collective, distributive, and exhaustive states or activities. The collective representation corresponds to the meaning of all in 'All of the turtles are in a tank', with the 'group' interpretation that all the turtles are in the same tank. The distributive representation assumes a pairing and is canonically associated with each. For the sentence 'Each turtle is in a tank', turtles and tanks would ideally be in one-to-one correspondence. The exhaustive representation corresponds to the favoured interpretation of sentences with two plural definite noun phrases. For * A portion of the English data was previously reported m Brooks & Brame (1996);

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A cross-linguistic study of children's comprehension of universal quantifiers: a comparison of Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and English

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Xing²,

Braine

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“…Harris et al, 1978;Hoogenraad et al, 1978). Non-linguistic information interacts with lexical and syntactic knowledge (Donaldson and McGarrigle, 1974). Syntactic strategies appear to be independent of the meanings of terms (Coker, 1978).…”

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“…This may have been because, as with Form A, almost is not understood or is ignored, and the basket which is most full selected. Or, the compelling notion of fullness (Donaldson and McGarrigle, 1974) may have overridden other criteria and influenced judgments. It is likely that the children who did pass item 24, Form B, understood the concept almost though some of these children may have used the first-in-line strategy.…”

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The Validity of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts

Smith¹

1986

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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Summary. Content, predictive and construct validity of the BTBC are assessed. Most of the 50 BTBC concepts are found to be seminal to the infant school curriculum. Predictive validity evidence shows relationships between BTBC scores and later achievements in language, mathematics and reading as assessed by teachers. The BTBC appears to be a multi‐dimensional test of general cognitive development as well as being a guide to concept acquisition. Diversity is shown in the efficacy of test items: non‐linguistic information, children's conceptual preferences and limitations in item design, as well as semantic, syntactic and conceptual knowledge, influence responses.

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“…Esta interpretação exaustiva foi proposta porque a literatura da extensão quantificadora (Bucci, 1978;Donaldson & McGarrigle, 1974;Inhelder & Piaget, 1958, 1964Philip, 1991Philip, , 1992 sugeria que crianças podem evitar a seleção de figuras coletivas não exaustivas e distributivas, levando em conta o desenho de objetos extras. Contrariamente às expectativas, a maioria das crianças de cada um dos estudos não associou sentenças com all ou each, ou seus equivalentes em português, com uma interpretação exaustiva.…”

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A teoria da lógica mental: e os estudos empíricos em crianças e adultos

Dias¹,

Roazzi²

2003

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RESUMO. Discorremos sobre a teoria da lógica mental como hoje se apresenta, as controvérsias oriundas dos estudos que utilizam a Tabela de Verdade da Lógica Padrão e os estudos empíricos com crianças e adultos que dão suporte à lógica proposicional e à lógica predicativa.Palavras-chave: lógica mental; lógica proposicional e lógica predicativa. MENTAL LOGIC THEORY: EMPIRICAL STUDIES AMONG CHILDREN AND ADULTSABSTRACT. In this paper we discuss Mental Logic Theory and the controversies originated from studies which made use of the Standard Logic Truth Processos inferenciais são necessários para que as pessoas sejam capazes de lidar com as inúmeras situações do dia-a-dia. De fato, apresentam-se em múltiplas atividades de pensamento cotidiano e científico, no qual, a partir de um conjunto mais ou menos amplo de premissas, são inferidas conclusões que não aumentam as informações implicitamente presentes nas próprias premissas. Esta capacidade inferencial, tão simples que intuitivamente não precisa ser explicada, é atribuída pelos defensores da teoria da lógica mental à utilização de um esquema inferencial básico da lógica mental, isto é, o modus ponens .Neste artigo, não somente iremos discorrer a respeito dos pressupostos básicos que fundamentam a Teoria da Lógica Mental (TLM), como também, discutiremos o raciocínio sobre os processos inferenciais e sobre como, a partir destas habilidades inferenciais, a TLM explica este tipo de habilidades de tipo proposicional. Apresentaremos, também, as controvérsias atuais oriundas dos estudos que utilizam a Tabela de Verdade da Lógica Padrão e os estudos empíricos com crianças e adultos que dão suporte à lógica proposicional e à lógica predicativa.

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Some clues to the nature of semantic development

Cited by 84 publications

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A cross-linguistic study of children's comprehension of universal quantifiers: a comparison of Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and English

A cross-linguistic study of children's comprehension of universal quantifiers: a comparison of Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and English

The Validity of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts

A teoria da lógica mental: e os estudos empíricos em crianças e adultos

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