Children's Interpretation of Process Nominals: The Use of Argument Structure as Positive Evidence  

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O'Day, Paula

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 3 no. 2 (1993), page 159-182.
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This study investigated children's interpretation of the subject of process nominals (PNs) in complement position of a sentence. Its purpose was to see whether children base their interpretation oh the PN subject on: (a) their familiarity with main-V meaning, (b) the plausibility of the sentential subject as the performer of the act specified in the PN, or (c) use of their knowledge of PN argument structure as posotive evidence. Participants ranged in age from 4;1 to 6;8. Their pattern of judgment was consistent with predictions made for (c); it indicated that they distinguish between unambigous unergative and transitive PNs, using the former aas evidence that the main V is not a [+ control] V with respect to PN complements. No familiar- V or plausibility effect was found. A sequence oh hypotheses children use to determine the control status of Vs with respect to PN complements is suggested and seen to be compatible with a claim that grammatical knowledge is instantaneous.

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