Everybody knows

Abstract

Much current research is devoted to childrens non-adult responses to sentences containing the universal quantifier every. In this chapter we review two alternative views: one that attributes childrens responses to non-adult grammars and one that focuses on extralinguistic factors to explain childrens non-adult responses. We argue that the grammatical view faces several theoretical difficulties and, in light of new experimental findings, we demonstrate that it also suffers from limited explanatory power. © 2006 Springer.