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Wagner, Laura – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
This paper investigated children's ability to use syntactic structures to infer semantic information. The particular syntax-semantics link examined was the one between transitivity (transitive/intransitive structures) and telicity (telic/atelic perspectives; that is, boundedness). Although transitivity is an important syntactic reflex of telicity,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Syntax, Inferences