My central claim will probably come as a surprise to most parents, and even to many
acquisitionists: In day-to-day life, when children put together words (and smaller …

Dutch modal verb hoeven 'need'is a Negative Polarity Item (NPI) because of its restricted
distribution to certain negative contexts only. By investigating the distribution of this NPI in …

The present study investigated Mandarin-speaking children's acquisition of the polarity
sensitive item renhe 'any'in Mandarin Chinese. Like its English counterpart any, renhe can …

This dissertation examines the acquisition of a phenomenon that lies at the interface of logic
and grammar. Polarity-sensitive items (PSIs), including negative polarity items (NPIs) such …

Abstract This study examined 4-to 5-year-old English-speaking children's inter-pretations of
sentences containing negation, the universal quantifier, and disjunction. Disjunction is …

This paper explores the learnability of English indefinite any, Dutch modal verb hoeven, and
Mandarin Chinese (WH-) indefinite/pronoun shenme. These three expressions, belonging to …

This paper addresses the issue of negative polarity items in the restrictor of definite
descriptions. This matter has received little attention in the literature and the discussion of …

This article presents a study of preschool-aged children's knowledge of the semantics of the
negative polarity item (NPI) any. NPIs like any differ in distribution from non-polarity-sensitive …

The main goal of this dissertation is to understand how L3/Ln acquisition unfolds and how
studying it transitions to the bigger field of non-native acquisition as well as theoretical …

Dutch modal verb hoeven 'need'is a Negative Polarity Item (NPI) because of its restricted
distribution to certain negative contexts only. By investigating the distribution of this NPI in …