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Direct linkYuan, Sylvia Hsin Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Children use syntax as well as observations of events to learn verb meanings. This is known as syntactic bootstrapping. This dissertation investigated the origins and mechanisms of syntactic bootstrapping. Prior evidence suggested that two-year-olds, but not younger children, could use aspects of sentence structure to assign different…
Descriptors: Verbs, Sentence Structure, Sentences, Semantics
Peer reviewedOwen, Amanda J.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
The purpose of this study was to explore whether 13 children with specific language impairment (SLI; ages 5;1-8;0 [years;months]) were as proficient as typically developing age- and vocabulary-matched children in the production of finite and nonfinite complement clauses. Preschool children with SLI have marked difficulties with verb-related…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Skills, Morphology (Languages)
