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Publication details [#31315]

Naigles, Letitia R. 1996. The use of multiple frames in verb learning via syntactic bootstrapping. Cognition 58 (2) : 221–251.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | gender | meaning | verb

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This article offers experimental evidence that 2-year-old children can, besides the extralinguistic scene, employ multiple syntactic frames to help focus on the meaning of a novel verb.