On the tri-ambiguous status of any : the view from child language

Lyn Shan Tieu

On the tri-ambiguous status of any : the view from child language

Lyn Shan Tieu

Western Sydney University

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![CDATA[This paper examines the monolingual acquisition of the English polaritysensitive item any, and uses evidence from child language acquisition to shed light on two questions that arise from the theoretical semantics literature. First, evidence from child spontaneous speech production is used to argue that children are grammatically conservative in their acquisition of negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. The same child data are then used to argue the following: (i) there is only one NPI any, subject to a disjunctive licensing condition; (ii) NPI any differs in some way from free choice (FC) any, resulting in the later emergence of FC any.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SALT 20: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, Universityof British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 29 - May 1, 2010
Publisher	Cornell University
Pages	19-37
Number of pages	19
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory - Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → …

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Conference	Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory
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English language
language acquisition
semantics
children

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Tieu, LS 2010, On the tri-ambiguous status of any : the view from child language. in Proceedings of SALT 20: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, Universityof British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 29 - May 1, 2010. Cornell University, pp. 19-37, Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 1/01/16.

On the tri-ambiguous status of any : the view from child language. / Tieu, Lyn Shan.
Proceedings of SALT 20: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, Universityof British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 29 - May 1, 2010. Cornell University, 2010. p. 19-37.

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