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Raquel G. Alhama; Ruthe Foushee; Dan Byrne; Allyson Ettinger; Susan Goldin-Meadow; Afra Alishahi – Grantee Submission, 2023
Having heard "a pimwit", English-speakers assume that "the pimwit" is also possible. This type of productivity is attributed to syntactic categories such as NOUN and DETERMINER, but the key question is "how" do humans become endowed with these categories in the first place. We propose a novel approach that combines…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Child Language, Native Language