El papel de la Pregunta Bajo Investigación en la generación de implicaturas escalares en adultos y niños hispanohablantes

Amy S. Pratt; John A. Grinstead; Nicolette Leon; Ramón Padilla-Reyes

Amy S. Pratt The Ohio State University
John A. Grinstead The Ohio State University
Nicolette Leon The Ohio State University
Ramón Padilla-Reyes The Ohio State University

Palabras clave: semántica en desarrollo, pragmática en desarrollo, indefinidos, pragmática, semántica

Resumen

Existen líneas independientes de investigación que han examinado tanto lo que los niños saben acerca de las implicaturas como, con respecto al alcance de los cuantificadores, el papel desempeñado por la estructuración del discurso experimental con una Pregunta Bajo Investigación (PBI) explícita, con el fin de hacer que los niños accedan más fácilmente a las interpretaciones. En esta investigación, nos preguntamos si una PBI explícita puede facilitar la generación de implicaturas, por lo cual comparamos dos PBIs particulares para determinar si el nivel de especificidad es importante. Los resultados demuestran que los adultos, a diferencia de los niños, generaron implicaturas y que sus juicios eran más categóricos que en la investigación previa. No había diferencias significativas entre las PBIs generales vs. las específicas.

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Biografía del autor/a

Amy S. Pratt, The Ohio State University

Amy S. Pratt: Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Education, University of California, Irvine. Her research investigates the co-occurrence of language and reading disorders, especially in children who speak Spanish, and the underlying relationships among language ability, reading ability, and cognition.

John A. Grinstead, The Ohio State University

John A. Grinstead: Ph.D., Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Linguistics, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University. Academic Interests include typical and atypical linguistic and cognitive development, especially in Spanish; the relationships among mental faculties, formal theories of linguistics and language development.

Nicolette Leon, The Ohio State University

Nicolette Leon: B.A., Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University. Academic interests include child language development, second language acquisition and Spanish-English bilingualism.Academic Interests include typical and atypical linguistic and cognitive development, especially in Spanish; the relationships among mental faculties, formal theories of linguistics and language development.

Ramón Padilla-Reyes, The Ohio State University

Ramón Padilla-Reyes: Ph.D., Linguist, Facebook. Interests include Psycholinguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language and Caribbean & Latin American Spanish. His research addresses pluractionality, semantic and pragmatic scales and intesionality.nguistics and language development.

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