Chapter 1. The Truth Value Judgment Task
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Rosalind Thornton
Abstract
Thirty years have passed since the dynamic Truth Value Judgment Task was invented (Crain & McKee 1985). The methodology was created to test children’s knowledge of constraints and to test whether or not children could access both meanings associated with ambiguous sentences. The task is widely used today in its original format as detailed in Crain and Thornton (1998) but it has also been adapted to solve new issues and to meet the demands of cross-linguistic data. This paper reviews the task and discusses extensions. The extensions accommodate contexts of uncertainty, felicity judgments, and include an adaptation called the Question/Statement task designed to address special linguistic properties of Mandarin Chinese.
Abstract
Thirty years have passed since the dynamic Truth Value Judgment Task was invented (Crain & McKee 1985). The methodology was created to test children’s knowledge of constraints and to test whether or not children could access both meanings associated with ambiguous sentences. The task is widely used today in its original format as detailed in Crain and Thornton (1998) but it has also been adapted to solve new issues and to meet the demands of cross-linguistic data. This paper reviews the task and discusses extensions. The extensions accommodate contexts of uncertainty, felicity judgments, and include an adaptation called the Question/Statement task designed to address special linguistic properties of Mandarin Chinese.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition 1
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Part I. Tasks
- Chapter 1. The Truth Value Judgment Task 13
- Chapter 2. Negation, uncertainty, and the Truth Value Judgment Task 41
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Part II. Binding
- Chapter 3. Logophoric z iji in Mandarin child language 65
- Chapter 4. Kare and the acquisition of bound variable interpretations by Korean speaking learners of Japanese 85
- Chapter 5. Interpretation of bound pronouns by learners of Japanese Sign Language 107
- Chapter 6. The acquisition of the non-subject status of nominative objects in Japanese 127
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Part III. Scope Interactions
- Chapter 7. Scrambling and locality constraints in child Japanese 147
- Chapter 8. On scope interaction between subject QPs and negation in child grammar 165
- Chapter 9. Native and non-native comprehension of the Japanese existential quantifier nanko-ka 197
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Part IV. Wh-words and Logical Expressions
- Chapter 10. Free choice and wh -indefinites in child Mandarin 223
- Chapter 11. The acquisition of the wh -pronoun duo-shao in child Mandarin 237
- Chapter 12. Logical expressions in Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders 265
- Name Index 281
- Subject Index 285
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition 1
-
Part I. Tasks
- Chapter 1. The Truth Value Judgment Task 13
- Chapter 2. Negation, uncertainty, and the Truth Value Judgment Task 41
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Part II. Binding
- Chapter 3. Logophoric z iji in Mandarin child language 65
- Chapter 4. Kare and the acquisition of bound variable interpretations by Korean speaking learners of Japanese 85
- Chapter 5. Interpretation of bound pronouns by learners of Japanese Sign Language 107
- Chapter 6. The acquisition of the non-subject status of nominative objects in Japanese 127
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Part III. Scope Interactions
- Chapter 7. Scrambling and locality constraints in child Japanese 147
- Chapter 8. On scope interaction between subject QPs and negation in child grammar 165
- Chapter 9. Native and non-native comprehension of the Japanese existential quantifier nanko-ka 197
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Part IV. Wh-words and Logical Expressions
- Chapter 10. Free choice and wh -indefinites in child Mandarin 223
- Chapter 11. The acquisition of the wh -pronoun duo-shao in child Mandarin 237
- Chapter 12. Logical expressions in Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders 265
- Name Index 281
- Subject Index 285
