Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development

2016/10/17 by Raj Singh, Ken Wexler, Andrea Astle-Rahim +3 · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Language Development and Disorders #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

paper · doi:10.1007/s11050-016-9126-3

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