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Chui, Daniel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
Previous analyses of the Spanish deictic verbs "venir" "to come", "ir" "to go", traer "to bring" and "llevar" "to take" have drawn upon Fillmore's (1975) series of lectures on deixis in noting that speakers of Spanish forbid the use of the verbs "venir" and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Verbs, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Geffen, Susan; Mintz, Toben H. – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Word order is a core mechanism for conveying syntactic structure, yet interrogatives usually disrupt canonical word orders. For example, in English, polar interrogatives typically invert the subject and auxiliary verb and insert an utterance-initial "do" if no auxiliary is present. These word order patterns result from differences in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Word Order, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Hwang, Heeju; Kaiser, Elsi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
One of the central questions in speech production is how speakers decide which entity to assign to which grammatical function. According to the lexical hypothesis (e.g., Bock & Levelt, 1994), verbs play a key role in this process (e.g., "send" and "receive" result in different entities being assigned to the subject…
Descriptors: Korean, English, Verbs, Grammar
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Hohenstein, Jill – First Language, 2013
This study investigated the motion event language children and their parents engaged in while playing a board game. Children are sensitive to differences in manner and path at infancy, yet adult-like motion event expression appears relatively late in development. While multiple studies have examined how exposure to parent speech generally relates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Constructivism (Learning), Parents