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  • Developmental psycholinguistics
  • Child language acquisition
  • Semantics and pragmatics

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  • Understanding quantifiers like 'some' involves complex pragmatic reasoning beyond literal meaning.
  • Scalar implicatures, such as interpreting 'some' as 'some, but not all', are crucial for nuanced communication.
  • The development of lexical abilities in children may influence their capacity for pragmatic interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between lexical development and the comprehension of scalar implicatures in monolingual Spanish-speaking children.
  • To assess children's understanding of sentences with the existential quantifier 'algunos' ('some').
  • To determine if lexical development predicts the ability to generate pragmatically enriched quantifier interpretations.

Main Methods:

  • Administered a range of standard expressive and receptive lexical development tests to typically developing children.
  • Assessed children's comprehension of sentences using the quantifier 'algunos' to evaluate scalar implicature abilities.
  • Employed regression models and linear discriminant function analysis to examine the predictive power of lexical measures on implicature interpretation.

Main Results:

  • Significant positive correlations were found between all lexical measures and the ability to interpret scalar implicatures.
  • Three out of four lexical measures uniquely accounted for variance in implicature interpretation.
  • A linear discriminant function analysis accurately classified children as implicature generators (88%) or non-generators (100%).

Conclusions:

  • Lexical development is a significant predictor of children's ability to generate scalar implicatures.
  • The findings support the idea that the development of quantity-expressing determiners is linked to quantifier relationships.
  • Children's lexicons may reflect number system representations, influencing pragmatic interpretation through higher-order reasoning.