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Cao, Anjie; Lewis, Molly – Developmental Science, 2022
How do children infer the meaning of a novel verb? One prominent proposal is that children rely on syntactic information in the linguistic context, a phenomenon known as "syntactic bootstrapping". For example, given the sentence "The bunny is gorping the duck," a child could use knowledge of English syntactic roles to infer…
Descriptors: Verbs, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Syntax, Inferences