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Direct linkAilís Cournane; Mina Hirzel; Valentine Hacquard – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Modals (e.g., "can," "must") vary along two dimensions of meaning: "force" (i.e., possibility or necessity), and "flavor" (i.e., possibilities relative to knowledge [epistemic], goals [teleological], or rules [deontic] …). Comprehension studies show that children struggle with both force and flavor…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Definitions
