Abstract
The benefits offered by cochlear implants to hearing impaired adults are well documented. As these prostheses have gained clinical acceptance in the rehabilitation of this population, the application of cochlear implants in the management of pre- and postlingually deafened children has increased (OWens & Kessler 1989, Osberger 1989, Busby et al. 1989, Eisenburg et al. 1986).
Highlights
Consider the interpretation of the sentences in (1)-(3) below.( 1 ) (a) John sneezed. (b) John played on the beach.(2 ) (a) John sneezed freguently. .(b) John often played on the beach.(3 ) (a) John sneezed for two hours/years. (b) John played on the beach for two hours / years.The sentences in (1) can have either an iterative or a semelfactive interpretation, depending on the context in which they are interpreted. 1 In (2) the addition of the underlined frequency adverbials eliminates the possibility of a semelfactive interpretation, with the result that these sentences have an obligatory iterative interpretation
The account of optional and obligatory iterativity proposed here is based on the assumption that the iterative or semelfactive interpretation of sentences is not determined exclusively by construction-specific, or even language-specific, principles of meaning
It is determined by the interaction of language-specific principles of meaning with universal principles of conceptual structure
Summary
Consider the interpretation of the sentences in (1)-(3) below. ( 1 ) (a) John sneezed. (b) John played on the beach. Platzack discusses one of these, namely, the Swedish equivalent of the English verb cease He proposes that thi& verb shares the s~lectional restriction of for x time durational adverbials; that is, it requires pluralization of the type of event expression appearing in the (a)-sentences above. A solution of the type proposed by Platzack to the problem of accounting for obligatory iterativity has at least one major shortcoming Such a solution can provide no principled answer to the question of why only certain sentence constit~entstrigger an obligatory iterative interpretation, and only for certain types of event expressions. In accordance with the assumption set out in G~ above, there is no formal distinction between "purely" semantic rules of inference and pragmatically based rules of inference
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