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Direct linkKline, Melissa; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2014
To understand how children develop adult argument structure, we must understand the nature of syntactic and semantic representations during development. The present studies compare the performance of children aged 2;6 on the two intransitive alternations in English: patient ("Daddy is cooking the food"/"The food is cooking")…
Descriptors: Syntax, Generalization, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Verbs
