The acquisition of logical concepts in the centre of nature versus nurture debate

Abstract

My study investigates two approaches that emerged in the study of child language, aiming to find an answer for this question: the experience-based approach and the nativist approach. In this thesis, after a more detailed examination of these two perspectives, I seek to provide support for the latter by using the findings of Stephen Crain on adults’ and children’s asymmetric interpretation of disjunction and the universal quantifier ‘every’.