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Direct linkSyrett, Kristen; Arunachalam, Sudha; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Learning and Development, 2014
To acquire the meanings of verbs, toddlers make use of the surrounding linguistic information. For example, 2-year-olds successfully acquire novel transitive verbs that appear in semantically rich frames containing content nouns ("The boy is gonna pilk a balloon"), but they have difficulty with pronominal frames ("He is gonna pilk…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Verbs, Semantics, Language Research
