Previous work shows that children use syntactic information to guide their hypotheses about verb meaning. Bunger & Lidz 2004 demonstrated that 2-year-olds map novel unaccusative verbs onto just the result subevent of a complex causative event and novel transitive verbs onto the entire causative event. We present data from a new preferential looking study demonstrating that 2-year-olds map novel unergative verbs onto the means subevent of a causative. We conclude that the interpretation of novel verbs is driven not only by the number of arguments in a given syntactic frame, but also by the semantic roles played by those arguments
In controlled contexts, young children find it more difficult to learn novel words for actions than ...
A fundamental task of sentence comprehension involves assigning semantic roles to various sentence c...
This study examined how 3 and 5-year-old children initially interpreted novel verbs and how they mod...
Previous work shows that children use syntactic information to guide their hypotheses about verb mea...
This dissertation investigates the lexico-syntactic representations that children form when learning...
How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In t...
Previous research on early verb learning has focused largely on how children acquire verbs in highly...
130 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.Children use syntax as well a...
Children utilize a range of cues in verb learning. The current studies explore children’s weighting ...
ABSTRACT—Children use syntax to guide verb learning. We asked whether the syntactic structure in whi...
Item does not contain fulltextWhilst certain verbs may appear in both the intransitive inchoative an...
Argument structure is said to be a useful cue to verb meanings. That is because a sentence with a si...
Children use syntax in verb learning; this is syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990; Naigles, 1990...
Only few acquisition studies so far have looked at change-of-state events, aiming to identify lexica...
By about age three, English-learning children begin to understand passive sentences with familiar ve...
In controlled contexts, young children find it more difficult to learn novel words for actions than ...
A fundamental task of sentence comprehension involves assigning semantic roles to various sentence c...
This study examined how 3 and 5-year-old children initially interpreted novel verbs and how they mod...
Previous work shows that children use syntactic information to guide their hypotheses about verb mea...
This dissertation investigates the lexico-syntactic representations that children form when learning...
How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In t...
Previous research on early verb learning has focused largely on how children acquire verbs in highly...
130 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.Children use syntax as well a...
Children utilize a range of cues in verb learning. The current studies explore children’s weighting ...
ABSTRACT—Children use syntax to guide verb learning. We asked whether the syntactic structure in whi...
Item does not contain fulltextWhilst certain verbs may appear in both the intransitive inchoative an...
Argument structure is said to be a useful cue to verb meanings. That is because a sentence with a si...
Children use syntax in verb learning; this is syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990; Naigles, 1990...
Only few acquisition studies so far have looked at change-of-state events, aiming to identify lexica...
By about age three, English-learning children begin to understand passive sentences with familiar ve...
In controlled contexts, young children find it more difficult to learn novel words for actions than ...
A fundamental task of sentence comprehension involves assigning semantic roles to various sentence c...
This study examined how 3 and 5-year-old children initially interpreted novel verbs and how they mod...