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Direct linkNaigles, Letitia R.; Lehrer, Nadine – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This research investigates language-general and language-specific properties of the acquisition of argument structure. Ten French preschoolers enacted forty sentences containing motion verbs; sixteen sentences were ungrammatical in that the syntactic frame was incompatible with the standard argument structure for the verb (e.g. *"Le tigre va le…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, French, Preschool Children, Sentences
