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<pre WRAP>Dear Info-childes,</pre>
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<div WRAP>This note is in response to Tom Roeper's inquiry about work on
<i>each</i>. I have responded directly to Tom, but it occurred to
me that my message might also be of more general interest to the group.
Some years ago I published a study of the acquisition of a group of English
quantifiers that I called set-relational quantifiers. This group
includes the terms <i>all, some, no, none, each, every, any, another, other,
both, either, and neither </i> as they are used to quantify nominals.
Subsequently I used the conceptual model constructed to predict the developmental
sequence for American English speakers to do a comparative study of seven
modern Indo-European languages and classical Greek and Latin. The empirical
data were provided by native informants, except, of course, for classical
Greek and Latin, where I had to make do with a classicist colleague.
The results of these studies are reported in the following papers:</div>
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<p WRAP>Hanlon, Camille. (1987). Acquisition of set-relational
quantifiers in early childhood. <i>Genetic, Social, and General Psycholgy
Monographs</i>, 113, (2), 213-264. (<i>Genetic</i> is the older term
for <i>Developmental</i> and has no biological implication in this usage.)
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<p WRAP>Hanlon, Camille, & Silverberg, Joann. (1998). Semantic
and pragmatic aspects of set-relational reference in modern Indo-European
languages. <i>Pragmatics,</i> 8, 543-554.
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<p WRAP>The conceptual structures necessary to fully control this semantic
domain in everyday reference form a highly elaborated, multi-layered system,
a magnificent testament to the human (higher primate?) mind. Reading
through relevant transcripts of caregiver-child conversation gave me a
lot of clues as to how these structures could be constructed, but before
I finished the job, it was time to retire. Now its your turn to find
the answers. Enjoy!
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<p WRAP>Best wishes for a just and lasting peace everywhere,
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<p WRAP>Camille Hanlon
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