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Direct linkShafto, Carissa L.; Havasi, Catherine; Snedeker, Jesse – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Languages differ in how they package the components of an event into words to form sentences. For example, while some languages typically encode the manner of motion in the verb (e.g., running), others more often use verbs that encode the path (e.g., ascending). Prior research has demonstrated that children and adults have lexicalization biases;…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Semantics, Generalization
