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Direct linkLee, Joanne N.; Naigles, Letitia R. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The authors investigated the role of syntax in verb learning in Mandarin Chinese, which allows pervasive ellipsis of noun arguments. Two questions were investigated using the Beijing corpus on CHILDES: (a) Does the input to young children manifest syntactic-semantic correspondences as needed for acquiring verb meanings? (b) Are verbs presented in…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Syntax, Semantics
