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Direct linkKline, Melissa; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2014
To understand how children develop adult argument structure, we must understand the nature of syntactic and semantic representations during development. The present studies compare the performance of children aged 2;6 on the two intransitive alternations in English: patient ("Daddy is cooking the food"/"The food is cooking")…
Descriptors: Syntax, Generalization, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Verbs
Demuth, Katherine; Machobane, Malillo; Moloi, Francina – Language, 2009
Noun-class prefixes are obligatory in most Bantu languages. However, the Sotho languages (Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi) permit a subset of prefixes to be realized as null at the intersection of "unmarked" phonological, syntactic, and discourse conditions. This raises the question of how and when the licensing of null prefixes is learned. Using…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Acquisition, African Languages, Morphemes
