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Ninio, Anat – Journal of Child Language, 2005
The study explored early syntactic development, and tested the hypothesis that children use similarity of meaning in order to move beyond the learning of individual item-based multiword constructions. The first 6 types of verb-object (VO) constructions in Hebrew-speaking children were analysed for the occurrence of transfer of learning and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Syntax, Transfer of Training