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The Role of Input Cues in Acquiring Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs: Verb Learning Experiments with Mandarin-Speaking Toddlers
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Ziqi Wang; Xiaolu Yang; Stella Christie; Rushen Shi – First Language, 2025
Children make use of various information in linguistic input to learn verbs, including syntactic distribution and semantic features. Within the intransitive verb class, unaccusative and unergative verbs differ in distribution with respect to word order as well as in semantic features such as telicity. Both the distributional and semantic…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Cues