http://www.linguisticsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/Children-Use-Syntax.compressed.pdf WebAug 20, 2024 · The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings. L. Gleitman. Published 20 August 2024. Linguistics. Sentence First, Arguments Afterward. This chapter presents the theory of syntactic bootstrapping. It shows fundamental problems with a theory of verb learning based solely on observations of the external world. It then shows how these problems …
First Contact in Verb Acquisition: Defining a Role for Syntax
WebJun 1, 1990 · This paper provides an experimental validation of Landau & Gleitman's (1985) syntactic bootstrapping procedure; namely, that children may use syntactic information … edgar winter amazon
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WebApr 3, 2024 · Key Takeaways “Has” serves as the present tense third-person singular form of “have,” whereas “had” is the past tense of both “have” and “has.” Use “has” to describe a present situation, action, or possession and “had” for past occurrences. WebThe present studies investigated children's use of verb inflections to guide their initial mapping of verb meanings. Given that children initially apply the progressive -ing … WebMandarin Chinese allows pervasive ellipsis of noun arguments (NPs) in discourse, which casts doubt concerning child learners' use of syntax in verb learning. This study investigated whether Mandarin learning children would nonetheless extend verb meanings based on the number of NPs in sentences. Forty-one Mandarin-speaking two- … configureexternalservices