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A crosslinguistic study of symmetrical judgments
A longstanding puzzle in developmental linguistics is why children are more
permissive than adults in assigning distributive interpretations to sentences with
the universal quantifiers each, every, and all under certain experimental
conditions. One well-known controversial issue in this area is children’s
symmetrical judgments of universally quantified sentences. Symmetrical
judgments are elicited when a child is asked to judge if a sentence including a
universal quantifier describes a visual context depicting an incomplete distributive
relation. The following three judgment types have been included in the set of
symmetrical judgment types in the literature (examples from Kang, 2001).peer-reviewe