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Direct linkKaschak, Michael P.; Glenberg, Arthur M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2004
Four experiments are presented in which adults learned to comprehend a new syntactic construction in their native language. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrate that adults quickly learn to comprehend the new construction and generalize it to new verbs. Experiment 3 shows that experience with the novel construction affects the processing of a…
Descriptors: Adults, Syntax, Structural Linguistics, Structural Grammar
