PSYC 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ditransitive Verb, Syntactic Bootstrapping, Morpheme
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What information do children use to learn verbs: verbs are verblike , syntactic context argument structure: tells you about the kind of event described by the verb, which gives a clue to its meaning. [third participant, idirect object, is usually introduced by a prep: experimental evidence. Show me the fep vs. show me the fep one (gelman & markman: noun vs. adjective. The duck is gorping the bunny vs. the duck and the bunny are gorping (naigles 1990) Children used sentence context to help them know what words mean: syntactic bootstrapping: syntactic context helps provide input they need to learn the language. Children have knowledge about the world from birth or experiences. Morphology: morpheme = smallest unit with meaning dog, red, un beat able, run s. Un has no meaning on its own but changes the meaning of a word: inflectional morphology: (verb conjugations) tells us what tense and what person the verb is.
