Linking Language and Events: Spatiotemporal Cues Drive Children’s Expectations About the Meanings of Novel Transitive Verbs

How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In the present studies, we provided 3–4-year-old children with minimal-pair scene contrasts in order to determine the effect of particular event properties on novel verb learning. Specifically, we tested...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kline, Melissa, Snedeker, Jesse, Schulz, Laura E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113088
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039