TY  - GEN
A1  - Berger, Frauke
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
T1  - Restrictions on addition
BT  - children’s interpretation of the focus particles auch ‘ also ’ and nur ‘ only ’ in German
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Children up to school age have been reported to perform poorly when interpreting sentences containing restrictive and additive focus particles by treating sentences with a focus particle in the same way as sentences without it. Careful comparisons between results of previous studies indicate that this phenomenon is less pronounced for restrictive than for additive particles. We argue that this asymmetry is an effect of the presuppositional status of the proposition triggered by the additive particle. We tested this in two experiments with German-learning three-and four-year-olds using a method that made the exploitation of the information provided by the particles highly relevant for completing the task. Three-year-olds already performed remarkably well with sentences both with auch 'also' and with nur 'only'. Thus, children can consider the presuppositional contribution of the additive particle in their sentence interpretation and can exploit the restrictive particle as a marker of exhaustivity.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 509 
KW  - presupposition
KW  - comprehension
KW  - implicature
KW  - acquisition
KW  - semantics
KW  - asymmetry
KW  - tolerance
KW  - mandarin
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414911
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 509
ER  -