Meaning from syntax: Evidence from 2-year-olds
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Meaning from syntax: evidence from 2-year-olds.
When toddlers view an event while hearing a novel verb, the verb's syntactic context has been shown to help them identify its meaning. The current work takes this finding one step further to reveal that even in the absence of an accompanying event, syntactic information supports toddlers' identification of verb meaning. Two-year-olds were first introduced to dialogues incorporating novel verbs ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.015