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Direct linkBecker, Misha; Estigarribia, Bruno – Language Learning and Development, 2013
Highly abstract predicates (e.g. "think") present a number of difficulties for language learners (Gleitman et al., 2005). A partial solution to learning these verbs is that learners exploit regularities in the syntactic frames in which these verbs occur. While agreeing with this general approach to learning verbs, we caution that this…
Descriptors: Syntax, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Verbs
