Course description
Linguistic aspects of children learning of numbers and quantities
Short description:
Quantifiers are logical words with no concrete referent in the world, and their meaning depends on the context in which they appear. In many cases, the meanings of quantifiers overlap, and adult speakers use different meanings in the same contexts. Because of these, the acquisition of quantifiers meaning is often delayed in children, as indicated by several experimental results. In this seminar, we will discuss different phenomena in quantifier acquisition, explore possible explanation for children’s low performance with quantifiers, and examine the experimental evidence. Students in this class will propose their own research question, develop experimental materials, as well as run the experiment and present its results in class.
Class requirements: presentation of papers in class; designing and running an experiment; writing a final paper to describe the experiment.
Class prerequisites: experimental methods in psycholinguistics (grade: 85+); language acquisition
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