Relevance Account

• (Philip 2011)
• pragmatic extension of the theory of Drozd and Loosbroek (2006)
• Philip claims that the problem that children have to solve when assigning a domain to a universal quantifier is which objects in the context should be taken as relevant.
• Adults rely on their world knowledge in identifying the presupposed set
• As formulated in the Normal World Constraint, “if an object is contextually relevant, then there is a normal situation that it is part of.”