Syntactic cues to the noun and verb distinction in Mandarin child-directed speech
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DOI: 10.1177/0142723719845175
Abstract: The syntactic structure of sentences in which a new word appears may provide listeners with cues to that new word’s form class. In English, for example, a noun tends to follow a determiner (a/an/the), while… read more here.
Keywords: directed speech; verb distinction; noun verb; cues noun ... See more keywords