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Specifically, the study aimed at determining when the meaning of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nessuno<\/jats:italic>\n                    is acquired, as well as whether negative concord structures showing both the sentential negation\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">non<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\u2018not\u2019) and postverbal\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nessuno<\/jats:italic>\n                    (e.g., \u2018\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Non<\/jats:italic>\n                    l\u2019ha vinto\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nessuno\u2019<\/jats:italic>\n                    , lit. \u2018\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Not<\/jats:italic>\n                    it has won\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">no one<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2019) are easier to compute and, therefore, acquired earlier than structures displaying only preverbal\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nessuno<\/jats:italic>\n                    (e.g., \u2018\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Nessuno<\/jats:italic>\n                    l\u2019ha vinto\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">\u2019<\/jats:italic>\n                    , lit. \u2018\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">No one<\/jats:italic>\n                    it has won\u2019) \u2013 a prediction following from a decomposition analysis of negative indefinites coupled with the Transparency Principle. Forty Italian-speaking children completed a Truth Value Judgement Task from which it emerged that the comprehension of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nessuno<\/jats:italic>\n                    is already almost at ceiling at 4\u2009years of age, and that no difference in accuracy rates holds between pre- and postverbal\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nessuno<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Although these findings neither support nor refute our predictions \u2013 that is, that the more linguistic material realised, the easier the comprehension \u2013 they are particularly interesting as they provide evidence for an early acquisition of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nessuno<\/jats:italic>\n                    regardless of the syntactic context. This, in turn, corroborates the idea that the late mastery of the double negation reading of certain Italian sentences featuring a preverbal negative indefinite followed by the sentential negative marker\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">non<\/jats:italic>\n                    is not to be attributed to difficulties in the processing of the negative information conveyed by the indefinite itself. 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