This dissertation investigates the acquisition of language-specific constraints on scope
interpretation by Japanese preschool children. Several constructions in Japanese do not …

Quantifiers are ubiquitous in natural language and, in addition to providing information
about quantity, they serve important discourse functions. We outline several theoretical …

The present study investigates native (L1) and second language (L2) processing of scope
ambiguities in English sentences containing the universal quantifier every in subject NP and …

Many sentences with two quantifiers exhibit a phenomenon known as “quantifier scope
ambiguity.” Consider the example A unicorn ran through every garden, which contains the …

The current thesis reports seven experiments investigating the interpretation that children
and adults assign to numerically quantified expression ambiguities like the one shown in (1) …

The early studies on the children's knowledge of Binding show that typically developing
children around 5 years old violate the Principle B about 50% of the time and that they follow …

Quantifiers are ubiquitous in natural language and, in addition to providing information
about quantity, they serve important discourse functions. We outline several theoretical …