Thematic relations as a cue to verb class: 2-year-olds distinguish unaccusatives from unergatives
Thematic relations as a cue to verb class: 2-year-olds distinguish unaccusatives from unergatives
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主题关系作为动词类别的提示：2 岁儿童区分非宾格和非作格
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2008
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J. Lidz
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A. Bunger;J. Lidz
以往的研究表明，儿童使用句法信息来指导他们对动词意义的假设。Bunger & Lidz（2004）的研究表明，2岁儿童将新的非及物动词映射到复杂致使事件的结果子事件上，而将新的及物动词映射到整个致使事件上。我们目前的数据从一个新的优先寻找研究表明，2岁的地图上的手段subevent的使役新的非作格动词。我们的结论是，新的动词的解释不仅是由在一个给定的句法框架中的参数的数量，但也由这些参数所扮演的语义角色。
Previous work shows that children use syntactic information to guide their hypotheses about verb meaning. Bunger & Lidz 2004 demonstrated that 2-year-olds map novel unaccusative verbs onto just the result subevent of a complex causative event and novel transitive verbs onto the entire causative event. We present data from a new preferential looking study demonstrating that 2-yearolds map novel unergative verbs onto the means subevent of a causative. We conclude that the interpretation of novel verbs is driven not only by the number of arguments in a given syntactic frame, but also by the semantic roles played by those arguments.