Scales and Non-scales in (Hebrew) Child Language

Leah R. Paltiel-Gedalyovich; Jeannette Schaeffer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10106-4_17

Scales and Non-scales in (Hebrew) Child Language

Leah R. Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Jeannette Schaeffer

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This paper reports adult and child knowledge of the generalized scalar implicature (GCI) of disjunction, the non-scalar ‘Allover’ GCI and the particularized no-contrast implicature. The contributions of scales, generalization, and relational complexity to the developmental difficulty of phenomena at the semantic–pragmatic interface are discussed. Results show that children as old as 9 years do not demonstrate adultlike knowledge of the scalar GCI of disjunction or the no-contrast PCI, while the ‘Allover’ GCI is demonstrated at 5 years. We conclude that the quaternary level relational complexity of the later developing implicature and the ternary level complexity of the earlier developing implicature, as analyzed by Halford et al. (1998) Relational Complexity Metric, can account for this developmental pattern, and not scales or generality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	339-355
Number of pages	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10106-4_17
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Volume	91
ISSN (Print)	0924-4670
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-0358

Keywords

First language acquisition
Implicatures
Relational complexity
Semantic–pragmatic interface

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Language and Linguistics

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