Erik-Jan Smits

List of John Benjamins publications in which Erik-Jan Smits is involved.

Article

Hollebrandse, Bart and Erik-Jan Smits 2005 The Acquisition of the Weak–Strong Distinction: The Case of the Dutch Quantifier Allemaal  Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction, Vogeleer, Svetlana (ed.), pp. 247–264 | Article

Drozd & van Loosbroek (1999) and Geurts (2003) recently introduced the weakstrong distinction into the discussion concerning the acquisition of quantification. They predict that children will start out interpreting all quantifiers as weak ones. Our experiment was set up to test this hypothesis.… read more