Lexicalization in the developing parser

We use children's noun learning as a probe into the nature of their syntactic prediction mechanism and statistical knowledge on which that is based. focus verb-based predictions, considering two possibilities: predictions might rely distributional about specific verbs–i.e. they be lexicalized–or general to all verbs. In an intermodal preferential looking experiment, we establish are lexicalized: children encode distributions verbs those make but do not assume these can assumed in general.