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Direct linkTheakston, Anna L. – Cognitive Development, 2004
Between the ages of 3 and 7 years, children have been observed to produce verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (e.g., Don't giggle me; Bowerman, 1982, 1988; Pinker, 1989). A number of recent studies have begun to find evidence that the precise distributional properties of the input may provide an important part of the explanation for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, Verbs, Persuasive Discourse
