The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings

Gleitman, L. (1990). The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings. Language Acquisition, 1(1), 3-55.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1990

DOI

10.1207/s15327817la0101_2

Link

https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327817la0101_2

Cited from

computer_science

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Primes

• Bootstrapping
  • Language and cognitive development: children inferring grammar from limited utterances, syntactic and statistical bootstrapping in word and speech-segment learning, and the self-teaching hypothesis in reading.

Domain-specific

• Linguistic Bootstrapping
  • … help the child identify syntactic categories and grammatical relations; Pinker's acquisition theory is the historically central formulation. In syntactic bootstrapping, the direction reverses: already learned sentence frames and argument structures constrain the likely meaning of a novel word, especially a verb.

    This sourceFoundational account of syntactic structure as evidence for verb meaning.

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