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The Roles of Verb Semantics, Entrenchment, and Morphophonology in the Retreat from Dative Argument-Structure Overgeneralization Errors
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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Chang, Franklin – Language, 2012
Children (aged five-to-six and nine-to-ten years) and adults rated the acceptability of well-formed sentences and argument-structure overgeneralization errors involving the prepositional-object and double-object dative constructions (e.g. "Marge pulled the box to Homer/*Marge pulled Homer the box"). In support of the entrenchment hypothesis, a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentence Structure, Semantics, Verbs
Semantics versus Statistics in the Retreat from Locative Overgeneralization Errors
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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Cognition, 2012
The present study investigated how children learn that some verbs may appear in the figure-locative but not the ground-locative construction (e.g., "Lisa poured water into the cup"; "*Lisa poured the cup with water"), with some showing the opposite pattern (e.g., "*Bart filled water into the cup"; "Bart filled the cup with water"), and others…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Exhibits
The Effect of Verb Semantic Class and Verb Frequency (Entrenchment) on Children's and Adults' Graded Judgements of Argument-Structure Overgeneralization Errors
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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Young, Chris R. – Cognition, 2008
Participants (aged 5-6 yrs, 9-10 yrs and adults) rated (using a five-point scale) grammatical (intransitive) and overgeneralized (transitive causative) uses of a high frequency, low frequency and novel intransitive verb from each of three semantic classes [Pinker, S. (1989a). "Learnability and cognition: the acquisition of argument structure."…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Semiotics