Preschoolers' interpretation of the focus particle csak 'only' in Hungarian

The paper reports on two experiments in which I tested whether Hungarian children can process the exhaustivity of sentences containing the focus particle csak 'only'. In line with previous studies concerning the interpretation of focus particles in different languages, I found that preschoolers at around the age of 5 are able to access the exhaustive meaning component of these constructions, though they are occasionally uncertain about which constituent they should associate this reading with. Interestingly, contrary to German-speaking children, they tend to expect the subject to be the focused constituent.