Acquisition of verb categories

Acquisition Of Verb Categories

The paper was delivered as a commentary upon Michael Brent's presentation "Acquisition of Subcategorization Frames Using Aggregated Evidence from Local Syntactic Cues" to the Conference on Acquisition of the Mental Lexicon, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania, January 1992. It argues in support of using statistical techniques like Brent's to minimize the consequences of errors and misanalyses, but...

The Emergence of Noun and Verb Categories in the Acquisition of French

The production of lexical categories (VP) and functional categories (copula) at the initial stage of child L2 acquisition

This is a longitudinal case study of two Farsi-speaking children learning English: ‘Bernard’ and ‘Melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. The research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language (L2) acquisition of syntax regarding the presence or absence of copula as a functional category, as well as the role and degree of L1 influe...

Unaccusative and Unergative Verb Acquisition: Effects of Implicit, Explicit, and Mixed Oral Corrective Feedback

Deep lexical acquisition of verb-particle constructions

Using the Pontryagin Duality and results of S. Fisher, P. Gartside (1991); P. Gartside, M. Smith (2007) and Y.D. Cornulier, L. Guyot, W. Pitsch (2008) we show that the space S(A) of all closed subgroups of a compact Abelian group A is countable if and only if there is a closed subgroup K of A such that K is topologically isomorphic to ⊕h i=1 Zpi⊕G and A/K is topologically isomorphic to T ⊕ G̃, w...