Can complement frames help children learn the meaning of abstract verbs?
Theories of language learning postulate a relatively simple, innate link between verb meaning and sentence structure. Syntactic bootstrapping predicts the use of known structure to help discover a novel word's meaning. Sentences containing tensed complements were postulated to be especially use...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2002
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3068537 |