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Direct linkArunachalam, Sudha; Leddon, Erin M.; Song, Hyun-joo; Lee, Yoonha; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2013
Research on early word learning reveals that verbs present a unique challenge. While English-acquiring 24-month-olds can learn novel verbs and extend them to new scenes, they perform better in rich linguistic contexts (when novel verbs appear with lexicalized noun phrases naming the event participants) than in sparser linguistic contexts…
Descriptors: Verbs, Korean, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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
