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SUMMARY:Japanese two year olds use morphosyntax to learn verb meanings - D
 r Ayumi Matsuo\, University of Sheffield\, School of English Literature\, 
 Language and Linguistics
DTSTART:20100202T160000Z
DTEND:20100202T173000Z
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CONTACT:Chris Cummins
DESCRIPTION:As early as 2 years of age\, English-speaking children infer t
 he meaning of a novel verb\, using information from the syntactic frame (t
 he intransitive/transitive distinction) of the sentence (Gleitman\, 1990).
   An obvious question that arises from such claims is whether or not the u
 se of syntactic frames is a universal technique\, regardless of the type o
 f input languages\, or a language-specific technique.  Some research inves
 tigating children's verb learning in argument drop languages\, in which su
 rface syntactic and morphological cues for verb meaning are not reliably p
 rsent\, is emerging (Imai et al. 2007\, Göksun et al. 2008\, Ratiamkul et
  al. 2004).  This paper investigates whether syntactic as well as morpholo
 gical cues (frames and case markers) are used by Japanese 2-year-olds when
  learning novel verbs.
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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