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Mapping properties to individuals in language acquisition (2014)
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Syrett, Kristen (2014). Mapping properties to individuals in language acquisition. Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, BUCLD(39), 398-410. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3KD20XC

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Mapping properties to individuals in language acquisition (2014)
Kristen Syrett
Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development BUCLD(39): 398-410.
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AbstractIn this research, I investigate the onset of children’s recognition that certain predicates -- predicates that are frequent and/or familiar to young children -- obligatorily apply at the individual level. The findings demonstrate that this knowledge is nascent at least by 3 years of age, and that it applies to groups of individuals referred to not only by count nouns, which have overt plural morphology, but also by object mass nouns, which lack it. Thus, I argue that children are driven by their conceptualization of the mereology of groups, rather than surface morphosyntax, and are sensitive to the fact that the lexical semantic representations of predicates may also tap into this structure.
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3KD20XC
SubjectsGrammar, Comparative and general--Syntax, Language acquisition, Whole and parts (Philosophy)
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