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Toddlers Default to Canonical Surface-to-Meaning Mapping When Learning Verbs
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Dautriche, Isabelle; Cristia, Alejandrina; Brusini, Perrine; Yuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia; Christophe, Anne – Child Development, 2014
Previous work has shown that toddlers readily encode each noun in the sentence as a distinct argument of the verb. However, languages allow multiple mappings between form and meaning that do not fit this canonical format. Two experiments examined French 28-month-olds' interpretation of right-dislocated sentences ("noun"-verb,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Concept Mapping, Verbs, Language Acquisition