On Children’s Knowledge of Scalar Implicatures : Evidence from Hebrew coordination

Abstract

"There has been much discussion about children’s knowledge of scalar implicatures. Some researchers have found evidence for early knowledge of these implicatures, i.e. Papafragou and Musolino (2003) for numerical scales, Chierchia, et al. (1998) for <and, or>. Other researchers have argued that this skill is late developing, i.e. Papafragou (to appear) for scalar implicatures associated with the scales <finish, start/begin>, and <completely, half/halfway>, Papafragou and Musolino (2003) for <all, some>, <finish, start>, Noveck (2001) for <must, might> and <all, some>, Musolino and Lidz (2002) for <not any, not every>, Chierchia , et al. (2001) for <and, or>"