How do Hungarian preschoolers interpret number words?

In addition to their 'exactly n' interpretation, numerals can receive non-exact readings, like 'at least n'. Since in Hungarian the interpretation of numerals is claimed to be determined by their syntactic position we carried out three experiments with Hungarian preschoolers to verify whether they can make use of structural information when interpreting numerals. We found that irrespective of syntactic structure, they strongly preferred the upper-bounded interpretation and the lower-bounded reading was not (or hardly) accessible to them. We conclude that the findings provide support for the view that the default meaning of numerals is in fact 'exactly n'.