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 2; 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 2023-09-01
Series:Open Research Europe
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Online Access:https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-49/v2