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Direct linkChi-hsin Chen; Yayun Zhang; Chen Yu – Cognitive Science, 2025
Learning the meaning of a verb is challenging because learners need to resolve two types of ambiguity: (1) word-referent mapping--finding the correct referent event of a verb, and (2) word-meaning mapping--inferring the correct meaning of the verb from the referent event (e.g., whether the meaning of an action word is TURNING or TWISTING). The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Ambiguity (Semantics), Adult Students, Linguistic Input
Sakine Çabuk-Balli; Jekaterina Mazara; Aylin C. Küntay; Birgit Hellwig; Barbara B. Pfeiler; Paul Widmer; Sabine Stoll – Cognitive Science, 2025
Negation is a cornerstone of human language and one of the few universals found in all languages. Without negation, neither categorization nor efficient communication would be possible. Languages, however, differ remarkably in how they express negation. It is yet widely unknown how the way negation is marked influences the acquisition process of…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Infants
