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The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study
Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g. *Lisa filled water into the cup/*Lisa poured the cup with water). Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24830412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097634 |
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author | Bidgood, Amy Ambridge, Ben Pine, Julian M. Rowland, Caroline F. |
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description | Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g. *Lisa filled water into the cup/*Lisa poured the cup with water). The present study investigated two proposals for how learners (aged 5–6, 9–10 and adults) acquire this restriction, using a novel-verb-learning grammaticality-judgment paradigm. In support of the semantic verb class hypothesis, participants in all age groups used the semantic properties of novel verbs to determine the locative constructions (ground/figure/both) in which they could and could not appear. In support of the frequency hypothesis, participants' tolerance of overgeneralisation errors decreased with each increasing level of verb frequency (novel/low/high). These results underline the need to develop an integrated account of the roles of semantics and frequency in the retreat from argument structure overgeneralisation. |
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spelling | pubmed-40227472014-05-21 The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study Bidgood, Amy Ambridge, Ben Pine, Julian M. Rowland, Caroline F. PLoS One Research Article Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g. *Lisa filled water into the cup/*Lisa poured the cup with water). The present study investigated two proposals for how learners (aged 5–6, 9–10 and adults) acquire this restriction, using a novel-verb-learning grammaticality-judgment paradigm. In support of the semantic verb class hypothesis, participants in all age groups used the semantic properties of novel verbs to determine the locative constructions (ground/figure/both) in which they could and could not appear. In support of the frequency hypothesis, participants' tolerance of overgeneralisation errors decreased with each increasing level of verb frequency (novel/low/high). These results underline the need to develop an integrated account of the roles of semantics and frequency in the retreat from argument structure overgeneralisation. Public Library of Science 2014-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4022747/ /pubmed/24830412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097634 Text en © 2014 Bidgood et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bidgood, Amy Ambridge, Ben Pine, Julian M. Rowland, Caroline F. The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study |
title | The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study |
title_full | The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study |
title_fullStr | The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study |
title_short | The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study |
title_sort | retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: a novel verb grammaticality judgment study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24830412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097634 |
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