When and how do children develop knowledge of verb argument structure? Evidence from verb bias effects in a structural priming task
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Verb argument structure Shanley
representation of these structures (see Tomasello (2000) and references therein, and Sections 13.3.1 and 13.3.2). In theweird word order paradigm, children hear an experimenter describing events using a weird word order (e.g. Ernie Bert pushing or pushing Ernie Bert to describe Ernie pushing Bert) and are then asked to describe similar events in their own words. When the verb is frequent (e.g. ...
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