Automatic Classification of Transitivity Alternations in Child-Directed Speech
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Children can use the characteristic entailment patterns of verb classes to learn new verbs (Naigles, 1996), but how do they acquire verb classes? One possibility is that surface features that reflect argument structure can separate verb classes (Merlo & Stevenson, 2001). We tested this hypothesis by running clustering analyses on surface features of 29 verbs extracted from a large corpus of child-directed speech. Results suggest that animacy plays an important role in verb classification.
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