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Direct linkScott, Rose M.; Fisher, Cynthia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Two-year-olds assign appropriate interpretations to verbs presented in two English transitivity alternations, the causal and unspecified-object alternations (Naigles, 1996). Here we explored how they might do so. Causal and unspecified-object verbs are syntactically similar. They can be either transitive or intransitive, but differ in the semantic…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Verbs
