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Ohba, Akari; Deen, Kamil Ud – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
This article investigates the acquisition of empathy verbs in child Japanese, focusing on verbs of giving/receiving: "age-ru" 'give,' "kure-ru" 'give,' and "mora(w)-u" 'receive.' These verbs are distinguished by which argument the speaker empathizes with when describing an event. For "age-ru" 'give,' the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Japanese, Verbs, Language Acquisition
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Goksun, Tilbe; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Imai, Mutsumi; Konishi, Haruka; Okada, Hiroyuki – Cognition, 2011
To learn relational terms such as verbs and prepositions, children must first dissect and process dynamic event components. This paper investigates the way in which 8- to 14-month-old English-reared infants notice the event components, "figure" (i.e., the moving entity) and "ground" (i.e., stationary setting), in both dynamic…
Descriptors: Infants, Old English, Investigations, Experiments