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Direct linkYuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia; Snedeker, Jesse – Child Development, 2012
Two-year-olds use the sentence structures verbs appear in--"subcategorization frames"--to guide verb learning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. This study probed the developmental origins of this ability. The structure-mapping account proposes that children begin with a bias toward one-to-one mapping between nouns in sentences and participant…
Descriptors: Cues, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
