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Direct linkArunachalam, Sudha – Cognitive Science, 2017
Children have difficulty comprehending novel verbs in the double object dative (e.g., "Fred blicked the dog a stick") as compared to the prepositional dative (e.g., "Fred blicked a stick to the dog"). We explored this pattern with 3 and 4 year olds (N = 60). In Experiment 1, we replicated the documented difficulty with the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Semantics, Verbs
