Children learn ergative case marking in Hindi using statistical preemption and clause-level semantics (intentionality): evidence from acceptability judgment and elicited production studies with children and adults [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Children learn ergative case marking in Hindi using statistical preemption and clause-level semantics (intentionality): evidence from acceptability judgment and elicited production studies with children and adults [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Background: A question that lies at the very heart of language acquisition research is how children learn semi-regular systems with exceptions (e.g., the English plural rule that yields cats, dogs, etc, with exceptions feet and men). We investigated this question for Hindi ergative ne marking; anoth...

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Main Authors: Pruthwik Mishra, Gaurav Saxena, Dipti Misra Sharma, Ben Ambridge, Soumitra Samanta, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Ramya Maitreyee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: F1000 Research Ltd 2023-03-01
Series:Open Research Europe
Subjects:
child language acquisition
preemption
semantics
ergative marking
Hindi
eng
Online Access:https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-49/v1

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