Commentary
What’s parsing got to do with it?
Article outline
- Fact 1. Sentences with the same word order yield different scope preferences
- Fact 2. Sentences with the same word order yield different scope preferences
- Fact 3. Sentences with different word order yield the same scope preference
- Fact 4. Across languages, children initially adopt the same scope preferences
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