Yael Gertner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yael Gertner plays a role.

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Scott, Rose M., Yael Gertner and Cynthia Fisher 2018 Chapter 7. Not all subjects are agents: Transitivity and meaning in early language comprehensionSemantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 154–176 | Chapter
Children use syntax to guide sentence comprehension and verb learning. We explored the nature of the meanings children infer from syntactic evidence by examining the types of event-roles they can link with the subjects and objects of transitive verbs. In two experiments, 23-month-olds heard a novel… read more