Processing auxiliary selection with Italian intransitive verbs
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Running head : PROCESSING INTRANSITIVE VERBS 1 Processing
Previous studies have demonstrated that, for adults, differences between unaccusative verbs (e.g. fall) and unergative verbs (e.g. dance) lead to a difference in processing. However, so far we don’t know whether this effect shows up in children’s processing of these verbs as well. This study measures children’s processing of intransitive verbs using the Visual World Paradigm. We find that child...
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عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0024-3949,1613-396X
DOI: 10.1515/ling.2010.011