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Using Verb Extension to Gauge Children’s Verb Meaning Construals: The Case of Chinese
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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Verb extension is a crucial gauge of the acquisition of verb meaning. In English, studies suggest that young children show conservative extension. An important test of whether an early conservative extension is a general phenomenon or a function of the input language is made possible by Chinese, a language in which verbs are more frequent and acquired earlier. This study tested whether 3-year-old Chinese children extended a group of familiar verbs that specify various ways to carry objects. Shown videos that portrayed typical, mid-typical, or atypical carrying actions (as verified by Chinese adults), children were asked to judge whether they were examples of specific Chinese carry verbs. Children’s verb extensions were mostly limited to typical exemplars, suggesting that an early conservative extension may be universal. Furthermore, extension breadth was related to the onset of verb production: verbs acquired earlier elicited more extension judgments than those acquired later.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572198 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7889498/
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Novel Word Learning at 21 Months Predicts Receptive Vocabulary Outcomes in Later Childhood
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In: J Child Lang (2019)
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Does the Owl Fly out of the Tree or Does the Owl Exit the Tree Flying? How L2 Learners Overcome Their L1 Lexicalization Biases
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Carving the World for Language: How Neuroscientific Research Can Enrich the Study of First and Second Language Learning
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Twenty-five years using the intermodal preferential looking paradigm to study language acquisition : what have we learned?
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IV. NIH TOOLBOX COGNITION BATTERY (CB): MEASURING LANGUAGE (VOCABULARY COMPREHENSION AND READING DECODING)
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In: Monogr Soc Res Child Dev (2013)
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Preverbal Infants' Attention to Manner and Path: Foundations for Learning Relational Terms
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Infant Categorization of Path Relations During Dynamic Events
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Find your manners: How do infants detect the invariant manner of motion in dynamic events?
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