Bidgood, A 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9719-4256, Ambridge, B, Pine, JM and Rowland, CF
2014,
'The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors : a novel verb grammaticality judgment study'
, PLoS ONE, 9 (5)
, e97634.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Health and Society |
| Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS ONE |
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
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| Funders: | Leverhulme Trust, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) |
| Depositing User: | A Bidgood |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2018 12:53 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2022 23:53 |
| URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/48490 |
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