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Learning the Structure of Causative Verbs: A Study in the Relationship of Cognitive, Semantic and Syntactic Development. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 8.
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Bowerman, Melissa – 1974
This is a study of the kinds of processes involved in learning the meaning of individual lexical items, and in particular how the acquisition of lexical meaning is related to the cognitive structuring of events on the one hand and the ability to produce syntactic paraphrases of a word's meaning and other related constructions on the other. It is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Deep Structure