Abstract
This paper investigates the relations between the meanings of verbs and the syntactic structures in which they appear. The investigation is motivated by the puzzle of how children discover verb meanings. Well-known problems with unconstrained induction of word meanings from observations of world circumstances suggest that additional constraints or sources of information are required. Five experiments are presented which investigate the hypothesis that the closer any two verbs are in their meaning, the greater their overlap should be in their licensed syntactic structures.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Sentence First, Arguments Afterward |
| Subtitle of host publication | Essays in Language and Learning |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 380-428 |
| Number of pages | 49 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780197510438 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199828098 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2020 |
Keywords
- Argument structure
- Language acquisition
- Syntactic bootstrapping
- Verb learning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology
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