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A classic case of such overuse of definites, for example, is Sarah's production I want to open the door when the referent is known to her but not to her mother Mother: Brown, , p. Children occasionally also do the opposite, using indefinite determiners for specific referents e. He on a fox's nose, ibid. What is the constitutive difference between child and adult language that makes this so?
Explanations put forward in the literature aim to characterize the underlying etiology of such patterns of misuse of definites in English.
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Indeed, evidence suggests that even adults may be governed by such egocentric biases, and that what may differentiate them from children is that they are better able to quickly suppress these arguably automatic tendencies in real-time interactions Epley et al. Schafer and de Villiers argue that egocentricity cannot account for errors, as children ages 3. The former view claims that non-adult behavior with definites is traceable to an underlying difference in how children lexically encode the various semantic contributions definite determiners make. The idea is that while children and adults may both connect definites to presuppositions regarding the E XISTENCE of entities picked out by the noun, children differ from adults in not additionally encoding maximality presuppositions maximality denotes uniqueness in the case of singular definites—i.
The latter view—that children may have difficulty with domain restriction—suggests that there is nothing at all deficient or non-adult-like about the way children represent the semantics of definites. The claim is that children may instead be non-adult-like in the ways that they engage in pragmatic inferencing required to circumscribe the relevant sub- domain of entities within which uniqueness or maximality presuppositions are to be satisfied. More recently, van Hout et al. He asks her if he can have a piece of cake the child must move a different piece of cake toward John ].
They showed a double dissociation between definite and indefinite determiner comprehension and production, with definites exhibiting expected better comprehension than production but indefinites better production than comprehension. Children accepted definite expressions for contexts with new referents, and, importantly, interpreted indefinite determiners as potentially referring to an already named referent i. The authors interpret their results as being caused by immature pragmatics specifically with regards to scalar implicature. Within the context of optimality theory, they argue that on a scale from strong to weak, definite NP are strong terms and indefinites weak ones.
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In the referent selection task, children understand indefinite NPs as being true for established referents in truth-value-judgment tasks but during referent-selection tasks they will accept indefinites for both old and new referents. To illustrate what could in principle distinguish between these two views, consider a study by Munn et al. In this study, the authors examined child behavior in an act-out task involving contexts like those depicted in Figure 1. Schematic representation of experimental display.
Animals are numbered starting from the closest to the barn cows by James Keuning, The Noun Project, copyright waived. But note that carrying out this instruction requires some additional effort, given that there are three salient next-to-the-barn cows present compared, e. What has to be inferred from the use of the singular definite in this context is that the relevant sub-domain for which uniqueness or maximality presuppositions are satisfied must be restricted implicitly i.
This illustrates the notion of maximality, which is for plurals the correspondent to Russellian uniqueness Russell, , i. Suppose that while children may reliably encode existence presuppositions of definites, they may still have specific difficulties with maximality, as has been argued by Wexler , see also discussion below of Caponigro et al.
If this is the case, children tested on this act-out task should show equal difficulties with both plural and singular definites. In contrast, Munn et al. In fact, precisely this predicted pattern is reported by Munn et al. While both English aged 3. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that difficulties reside in handling inferences needed for implicit domain restriction, and not with maximality encoding. However, a more recent study Caponigro et al. However, recall that Munn et al. This aspect of Munn et al. On the other hand, Caponigro et al.
Free relatives are of interest because their interpretation is also thought to be governed by maximality see Caponigro et al. They conclude that, contra Munn et al. Several features of the Caponigro et al.
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Second, they tested the two separate cases definite plurals and free relatives , which implicate maximality. This is of interest for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the constructions differ in their frequency. Their findings suggest that maximality mastery reflects age-related changes that cannot be simply input or exposure driven. We will return to these results below in the Discussion. For the moment the main point that we wish to register is that the available data are in conflict. Further, Caponigro et al.
They argue against Wexler's theory, according to which children do not assign the maximal meanings to definite noun phrases due to delays in logical semantic development, as some explanation for the maturational delay would be needed. Caponigro and colleagues explain their discrepancy with Munn and colleagues by noting that, in the English version of Munn's task, no indefinite plural condition i.
Note also that although TVJT tasks are thought to be a good measure of child linguistic comprehension, van Hout et al. Did a kite fly away? From a cross-linguistic perspective, some inconsistencies between English and French and English and Spanish acquisition have been also observed. We first present a short review of acquisition studies for French determiners in elicited and spontaneous production contexts, as well as in comprehension, before moving to our experiment.
Table 1 presents a sample of the most common determiner types. We also note an important cross-linguistic difference between English and French and to a lesser extent, between Spanish and French. English allows bare plurals for example in universal or generic statements, Lions are carnivores , whereas French common nouns must nearly always be accompanied by a determiner Les lions sont carnivores except in highly literary contexts see e.
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While determiner omission is common before age 2. Van der Velde and collaborators show similar levels of mastery after age 1. Most errors observed in these children are linked to gender agreement. Karmiloff-Smith elicited determiner production in contexts with similar objects of the same color [indefinite: The youngest group used a high number of demonstrative pronominal expressions e. More recently De Cat showed that in a blindfold tester situation, French-speaking children aged 2. These changes were not correlated with results on a theory of mind task, which led the author to conclude that it is not egocentricity that is driving errors.
Data from Bresson et al. The most common response in both groups, in the singula rand plural, was to provide a definite form. Finally, French-speaking children aged 6 can adapt to their interlocutor's knowledge level—adults who know or do not know a story—by using appropriate definite and indefinite determiners to introduce new referents in a comic-strip story-board. At age 6, a typical pattern, where first mentions of a referent tend to prefer the indefinite determiner is observed especially when the interlocutor is not informed of the story de Weck and Jullien, In a comprehension task involving new or already-moved items in an array of similar objects e.
Indefinite determiners led to the highest levels of error: Maratsos interpreted these results as signaling egocentricity in children, that is not taking into account the interlocutor's point of view. However, this explanation is not entirely convincing. Results could be due to an experimental bias toward maintaining the same referent across different actions based on his own data, Wexler, , also argues against the egocentricity account.
Karmiloff-Smith studied French-speaking children aged 3—11 years old, using an adaptation of Maratsos' task as well as others. In her comprehension task, we observe a reversal of the Maratsos pattern for French, as well as the English comprehension and production patterns, that is, better comprehension of indefinite than definite determiners at young ages, but high variability in results up to age 10 and a reversal of the pattern, which resolves in definites being better comprehended than indefinites.
It thus appears that French-speaking children do not necessarily show the same difficulties as English children mastering definiteness, with globally more efficient mastery of indefinites than definites in comprehension at young ages viz. Karmiloff-Smith, , but the opposite pattern in elicited production. Further, Karmiloff-Smith reveals variable behavior across age groups for indefinite comprehension, even at age One wonders whether all the children show variability or if only a subset do only global averages are reported , and whether this pattern resembles that of adults.
None of the studies reviewed were run on adult speakers, except Bresson , and Munn et al. This is important, as pre-testing with adults is useful to establish whether children have attained adult-like performance in the tasks and, importantly, whether variability is also observed in the adult grammar 3.