Who’s chasing who? Adults' and infants' engagement of quantificational concepts (“Each” and “All”) when representing visual chasing events.

Cesana-Arlotti, Nicolò; Knowlton, Tyler; Lidz, Jeffrey; Halberda, Justin

doi:10.1167/jov.20.11.1549

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“…In sum, infants could not represent all the same . As of today, there is little data with respect to infants’ ability to represent a universal quantifier all (though see Téglás & Bonatti, 2009 ; Cesana-Arlotti et al, 2020a ). Either such representation and the representation of same cannot combine, or infants lack a universal quantifier altogether.…”

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Representations of Abstract Relations in Infancy

Hochmann

2022

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relations are considered the pinnacle of human cognition, allowing for analogical and logical reasoning, and possibly setting humans apart from other animal species. Recent experimental evidence showed that infants are capable of representing the abstract relations same and different, prompting the question of the format of such representations. In a propositional language of thought, abstract relations would be represented in the form of discrete symbols. Is this format available to pre-lexical infants? We report six experiments (N = 192) relying on pupillometry and investigating how preverbal 10- to 12-month-old infants represent the relation same. We found that infants’ ability to represent the relation same is impacted by the number of individual entities taking part in the relation. Infants could represent that four syllables were the same and generalized that relation to novel sequences (Experiments 1 and 4). However, they failed to generalize the relation same when it involved 5 or 6 syllables (Experiments 2–3), showing that infants’ representation of the relation same is constrained by the limits of working memory capacity. Infants also failed to form a representation equivalent to all the same, which could apply to a varying number of same syllables (Experiments 5–6). These results highlight important discontinuities along cognitive development. Contrary to adults, preverbal infants lack a discrete symbol for the relation same, and rather build a representation of the relation by assembling symbols for individual entities.

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Representations of Abstract Relations in Infancy

Hochmann

2022

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“…Yet research that I don't have space to discuss here bears on these questions. (For studies investigating pre-linguistic human event perception, see Baldwin et al (2001), Hamlin, Wynn and Bloom (2007), Hamlin and Wynn (2011), Stich (2018) and Cesana-Arlotti et al (2020). For studies investigating monkey event perception, see Wang et al (2020)).…”

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Are There Collective or Partially Collective Interpretations of Universal Quantificational “Each” Sentences?

Leopold

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The English universal quantifier "each" is usually discussed as distributive in the literature. Yet linguists use the term "distributivity" to reference a number of different phenomena. I focus my analysis primarily on two kinds of distributivity with respect to "each": 'predicate distributivity' and 'event participation distributivity'. I explore two questions:(1) Can the meanings of any "each"-sentences be used to think about multiple referenced individuals as participating in the same events "collectively" or "partially collectively"?(2) Are there collective predicate interpretations of any "each"-sentences? I explore whether the answer to the first question might be 'yes' with respect to "partially collective" event interpretations. I claim that the question as to whether there is a "completely collective" event interpretation of "each"sentences warrants more investigation and may be open. I embed my analysis within a cognitive instructions framework, and argue for its usefulness in characterizing distributivity and quantification more generally.iii Table of Contents Introduction: Meanings are cognitive instructions, but what are cognitive instructions? .

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Who’s chasing who? Adults' and infants' engagement of quantificational concepts (“Each” and “All”) when representing visual chasing events.

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Representations of Abstract Relations in Infancy

Representations of Abstract Relations in Infancy

Are There Collective or Partially Collective Interpretations of Universal Quantificational “Each” Sentences?

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