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Direct linkEmma Nguyen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation focuses on the acquisition of the English verbal "be"--passive and the interaction between the lexical meaning of a verb and young children's observed behavior with the verb in the passive. Specifically, I investigate how children exploit lexical semantic information from their input in order to learn which verbs can…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Children, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Skills
