Children use verb semantics to retreat from overgeneralization errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study
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The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study
Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g. *Lisa filled water into the cup/*Lisa poured the cup with water). The present study investigated two proposals for how learners (aged 5-6, 9-10 and adults) acquire t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Linguistics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0936-5907,1613-3641
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2011.012