<em>Bootstrapping where?</em> Location changes disrupt intransitive verb mapping

Children utilize a range of cues in verb learning. The current studies explore children’s weighting two different for verb-meaning: number syntactic arguments and event location. Naigles (1990) demonstrated that children use bootstrapping mapping transitive intransitive verbs—they hypothesize verbs refer to one-participant events two-participant events. Previous work also indicates are sensitive the location an took place when they learning new verbs. study builds on this work, exploring role changes We find robustly link two-person but weaker overall linking one-person are, however, less likely has changed, suggesting influenced by background interpreting