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Fisher, Cynthia; Klingler, Stacy L.; Song, Hyun-joo – Cognition, 2006
Children as young as two use sentence structure to learn the meanings of verbs. We probed the generality of sensitivity to sentence structure by moving to a different semantic and syntactic domain, spatial prepositions. Twenty-six-month-olds used sentence structure to determine whether a new word was an object-category name ("This is a corp!") or…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Toddlers, Language Acquisition